As MSCI’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry Fernandez has led the firm for three decades to its position today as a premier provider of indexes and portfolio-construction and risk-management tools, as well as climate and sustainability data and research, across public and private assets. In 2019 and 2021, Mr. Fernandez was one of 30 executives named in the Barron’s list of the World’s Best CEOs. In 2025, he was named to the Time100 Climate list in recognition of his efforts to drive business action on global climate change.

Prior to becoming CEO of MSCI, Mr. Fernandez was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he worked in emerging-markets business strategy, equity-derivatives sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, mortgage-backed securities and corporate finance. Before Morgan Stanley, he was President of the private-equity firm HispaniMedia, Inc., and founded Ferco Partners, Inc., a private-equity investment firm in Mexico. He was also a diplomat at the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Fernandez serves on the boards of directors/trustees of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Foreign Policy Association, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and KAUST Investment Management Company. A former Chair of the Advisory Council at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Mr. Fernandez currently serves as an emeritus member of the Advisory Council.

Mr. Fernandez holds a BA degree in economics from Georgetown University and an MBA from Stanford University, and he pursued doctoral studies in economics at Princeton University.