May 4, 2021
Katherine Collins has been elected Chair and has appointed Ian McKinnon as Vice-Chair of the Santa Fe Institute’s Board of Trustees. Their three-year appointments began May 3, 2021, following the board’s bi-annual meeting.
Katherine Collinsis the first Head of Sustainable Investing at Putnam Investments and Founder of Honeybee Capital, the precursor to Honeybee Capital Foundation. She is also the first woman to chair SFI’s Board of Trustees since the institute’s founding in 1984.
Collins first came to SFI in the late 90s through SFI’s Applied Complexity Network. She was a new portfolio manager at Fidelity Investments, a member of the Applied Complexity Network (then known as the “Business Network”) when she attended a meeting on the topic of collective decision-making by honeybees. She was fascinated by speaker Thomas Seeley’s account of how the honeybees dispatch their most senior members to gather information, then use that information to inform