Dan Simkowitz ’91

Dan Simkowitz ’91 is Co-President of Morgan Stanley. He is responsible for the Institutional Securities Group and is Co-Head of Firm Strategy. Dan serves on the firm’s Operating, Management and Risk Committees, as well as the Morgan Stanley-MUFG Steering Committee. He was also Co-Chair of the Firm’s Capital Commitment Committee. He was most recently Head of Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) and Co-Head of Corporate Strategy.

Dan began his career at Morgan Stanley in 1990 in the M&A department and has worked in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. He was previously the Co-Head of Global Capital Markets and was the lead capital markets partner for the firm’s assignments with the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve during the 2008-2012 financial crisis. In 2016, he was appointed Head of MSIM and led the firm’s acquisitions of Eaton Vance/Parametric and Mesa West and the growth of its private markets and alternatives platform.

Dan is a graduate of Harvard College and holds an MBA from Columbia University. He is on the boards of the American Museum of Natural History, the U.S. Olympic Committee Foundation, and the Japan Society. Dan is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Harvard’s Committee on University Resources.