Sheldon Pang

Sheldon Pang is a prominent AAPI business leader in international trade, finance, and emission reduction. Pang currently serves as Vice Chairman of Freepoint Commodities LLC and Chairman of Freepoint Solar. For two decades prior to Freepoint, Pang served as President of the Pacific Group and Vice Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets, and as a Managing Director at AIG International, where he built successful businesses raising funds for U.S. and Canadian government and agency debt. Pang started his career as a Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s.

Through two U.S. presidential appointments, Pang served on the White House Commission for Presidential Scholars for seven years, and currently serves on the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts. A lifetime member of OCA-Asian Pacific American Advocates, Pang is a recipient of the OCA WHV’s Dynamic Achiever Award. Pang’s other civic engagements include serving on the Foreign Policy Leadership Committee at the Brookings Institute, the board for National Committee on US-China Relations, and the board of USA Water Polo.

Pang received a doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a master’s degree from Vanderbilt University. A beneficiary of scholarships that made his advanced education possible, Pang has been a dedicated supporter of educational causes, including serving on the board of Carmel Academy, the Asia Advisory Council of Brown University, the American Zhu Kezhen Education Foundation, and establishing scholarship funds at MIT and Brown University.

In 2019 and 2021, Henry was one of 30 executives named in the Barron’s list of the World’s Best CEOs.

MSCI is a New York Stock Exchange–listed S&P 500 company with revenues of over $2.7 billion and a market cap of over $40 billion. Headquartered in New York City, with more than 6,000 employees in more than 25 countries, and with clients in more than 100 countries, it is a central connecting point for the global investment industry. Its clients are the world’s largest investors, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, insurance companies, asset managers, mutual funds, ETF providers, hedge funds, and banks.

Prior to becoming CEO of MSCI, Henry 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.

Henry currently serves on the boards of directors/trustees of Royalty Pharma plc, Stanford University, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KAUST Investment Management Company, the Hoover Institution, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Foreign Policy Association, and Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York. In addition, he is a member of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero Principals Group, and an emeritus member of the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) Advisory Council.

He previously served on the boards of trustees at Georgetown University, the Trinity School, the Browning School, and MexDer (Mexican Derivatives Exchange).

Henry received a BA in economics from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Stanford GSB, and he pursued doctoral studies in economics at Princeton University. He was born in Mexico and grew up in Nicaragua, and now lives in New York City with his wife. They have three children.