Hudson Hoyle is a dual MBA and MIA degree candidate at Columbia Business School and Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), concentrating in in energy and environment and international security policy with a foreign language specialization in Latin American Studies.
As a Sustainable Investing Fellow, Hudson worked in Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Private Credit and Equity (PC&E) division on several initiatives to advance the group’s sustainability efforts. He developed an enhanced sustainability reporting strategy for PC&E based upon an assessment and evaluation of the landscape of ESG frameworks, standard setters, and coalitions. Moreover, Hudson was instrumental in developing an approach for integrating climate risk into the division’s investment processes. He built a dynamic model to analyze PC&E’s carbon footprint across several dimensions, developed a data maturity roadmap, and created a suite of tools and resources to help PC&E’s investors assess climate risk during pre-investment due diligence. Through the fellowship, Hudson developed a deeper understanding of the role private markets play in the transition to a decarbonized environment, and how investors, operators, and regulators can collaborate to advance sustainability within the financial ecosystem.
Prior to Columbia, Hudson was a director at Alvarez & Marsal in Houston, Texas where he spent seven years in management consulting. Hudson’s experience navigating clients through corporate transformations has enabled him to solve complex problems across a wide array of industries and functions. He is an adept problem solver and practitioner in finance and back-office transformation, M&A, technology strategy, and supply chain and procurement solutions within the energy, retail, distribution, and public sectors.
Hudson is the co-president of Microlumbia, Columbia Business School’s impact investment fund and nonprofit supporting financial inclusion and social enterprises in underserved communities around the world. Additionally, Hudson was a Three Cairns Fellow, where he supported the commercialization strategy for Takachar, a venture startup from MIT’s incubator lab and recipient of the XPRIZE. He is a Bishan Singh Kochhar Merit Scholar, Nonprofit Board Leadership Program participant, and a selected participant for Columbia’s International Fellows Program (IFP), which brings cross-disciplinary leaders together for a year of in-depth domestic and international policy analysis. Hudson earned his BBA in finance from Texas A&M University.