Michelle Greene

Michelle Greene is an experienced executive, board member, advisor, and academic. She has worked in the private sector, government, and academia, primarily in financial markets policy and financial services, where she has focused on the financial sector driving change in the way that corporations impact society and on gender equity.

Currently, Michelle is a board member of Blackstone’s private credit funds (NYSE:BXSL and BCRED). She also serves on the board of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, where she previously served as the board chair, Interim CEO, and President, and is on the board of its parent company, LTSE Group. She helped to launch the Exchange and has been a board member since its founding. As an advisor to the Exchange, she continues to work with CEOs and boards of companies on implementing long-term and sustainable policies.  Michelle also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, where she has taught and led workshops for over a decade on issues including gender and the financial sector, women’s leadership, sustainability, impact investing, and financial empowerment. Michelle is also an Advisory Board Member and Fellow of the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and an Advisory Board Member at the Berkeley Center for Law and Business at UC Berkeley School of Law. She serves on the Honorary Board of Halcyon, a nonprofit incubator and investor in early-stage, impact-driven startups.

Michelle has worked in financial markets and related policies for more than twenty years, both in government and in the private sector. Michelle founded and led the New York Stock Exchange’s global sustainability and corporate responsibility team. She has advised dozens of Fortune 500 companies in designing, implementing, and improving their own sustainability programs. She served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury in two Administrations, working on financial markets policy and financial inclusion.

Michelle’s previous experience also includes working as a consultant at McKinsey & Co., Inc. She began her career as a corporate lawyer.

In the non-profit sector, Michelle led the NYSE Foundation, was a member of President Obama’s White House Council on Women and Girls, has served on two Advisory Boards at the World Economic Forum (Gender Parity and Financial Inclusion), and was the Executive Director of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy and Financial Access. Michelle ran a human rights policy center at Harvard University. She has also served on a number of non-profit boards.

Michelle holds her JD from Harvard Law School and her AB from Dartmouth College.

Education

• JD, Harvard Law School
• AB, Dartmouth College