Roy Swan leads the foundation's Mission Investments team, managing Ford's portfolio of mission-related and program-related investments and working to expand and strengthen the impact investing field.
Before joining Ford, Roy served as managing director and co-head of Global Sustainable Finance at Morgan Stanley, committing over $13 billion in community development transactions. Among his prior experiences, he was founding CIO of New York City's Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone, a federal initiative to bring new resources to distressed urban communities. He also served as CFO at Carver Bancorp, the nation's largest African American managed bank; worked in corporate law at Skadden Arps; investment banking at The First Boston Corporation, Salomon Brothers, and JPMorgan; and finance at Time Warner.
Roy serves on several nonprofit boards, including the Dalton School, Enterprise Community Partners, Low Income Investment Fund, and the Partnership for After School Education in addition to the advisory boards of several private equity funds. Roy received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a JD from Stanford Law School.