MSCI appoints chief diversity officer
Tia Counts will fill the new international position based in London, and is responsible for aligning MSCI’s diversity, equality and inclusion goals.
May 11, 2021
Tia Counts has been appointed chief diversity officer of MSCI Inc., a new role for the index creator and provider of other investment tools and services.
Based in London, Counts will be responsible for aligning MSCI’s diversity, equality and inclusion goals with business outcomes. As an attorney, she previously served as global head of diversity and inclusion for JP Morgan’s asset and wealth management business and its global corporate and investment bank.
Former J.P. Morgan global diversity head moves to MSCI
Tia Counts
Tia Counts was named chief diversity officer at MSCI, the provider of stock market indexes and multiasset portfolio analytics said Tuesday in a news release.
The position is new.
Effective May 17, Ms. Counts will be responsible for ensuring that MSCI s diversity, equity and inclusion goals are being met and implemented throughout the company. She will be based in London and report to
Scott Crum, chief human resources officer.
Ms. Counts was global head of diversity and inclusion at J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management. She was replaced by
J.P. Morgan chooses new global head of diversity and inclusion
Lily Burkhart
Lily Burkhart was named global head of diversity and inclusion at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, effective immediately, a company spokeswoman said.
She replaced
Tia Counts in the role, who left the firm for an outside opportunity.
Ms. Burkhart will work with senior leaders to ensure diverse representation within the firm s teams and create an inclusive environment. She is based in New York and reports to
Alicia Dee, head of the asset and wealth management talent institute, and
Lucida Plummer, global head of employee diversity and inclusion for J.P. Morgan Chase.
nen, Mursula will succeed
Sini Kivihuhta. She is due to leave Ilmarinen in February 2021, as the company announced back in June, having worked at the Helsinki-based firm since 1983.
VBL –
Michael Leinwand will take up his position as chief investment officer at Germany’s
Versorgungsanstalt des Bundes und der Länder (VBL) with effect from 1 January rather than 1 April following a decision by the finance ministry, the organisation announced this week.
VBL is Germany’s €24bn supplementary pension provider for public sector employees. Leinwand was most recently at
Zurich Group and before that at Gothaer Asset Management AG and GenRe Capital in Cologne.