MSCI Hires Alvise Munari as Head of Client Coverage in the EMEA Region

MSCI Inc. (NYSE:MSCI), a leading provider of portfolio construction and risk management tools for global investors, announced today that Alvise Munari has joined MSCI as a Managing Director and Head of Client Coverage in the EMEA region. Based in London, Mr. Munari reports to Laurent Seyer, Managing Director and Global Head of Client Coverage.

“I am thrilled to have someone with Alvise’s credentials leading our sales and service teams in EMEA,” Mr. Seyer said. “His impressive academic background and experience in building and managing complex international businesses will help to fuel our continued growth in the region. Our clients will benefit from his deep knowledge of the way global investors build and manage portfolios and the regulatory and capital frameworks within which they operate.”

Mr. Munari added, "I am very happy to join a company with a reputation for best-in-class products and research-based innovation. More than ever, institutional investors are looking for tools to help them make better-informed decisions, and I believe MSCI is ideally positioned to extend its leadership position across Europe and other parts of the EMEA region.”

Mr. Munari was most recently Global Head of Equity Derivatives sales and Financial Engineering at Morgan Stanley. He has also held senior positions at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.

After earning an undergraduate degree in economics and mathematics from the London School of Economics, Mr. Munari went on to receive an MSc and DPhil in mathematics from Oxford University and was a post-doctoral fellow in the mathematical laboratories at Ecole Polytechnique. He is fluent in French, Italian, English, Spanish and German.

About MSCI

For more than 40 years, MSCI’s research-based indexes and analytics have helped the world’s leading investors build and manage better portfolios. Clients rely on our offerings for deeper insights into the drivers of performance and risk in their portfolios, broad asset class coverage and innovative research.

Our line of products and services includes indexes, analytical models, data, real estate benchmarks and ESG research.

MSCI serves 97 of the top 100 largest money managers, according to the most recent P&I ranking.

For more information, visit us at www.msci.com.

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