John E. Morton is WWF’s Executive Managing Director of Nature Finance and Investment. He has more than thirty years of experience in emerging markets, environmental finance, and economic and environmental policy. He has been at the forefront of designing some of the most innovative investment vehicles to mobilize private capital for climate and nature. He joined WWF from Pollination, a climate investment and advisory firm. In the U.S. Government, he served as the Treasury Department's and Secretary Janet Yellen’s inaugural Climate Counselor, the President’s White House Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change at the National Security Council, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation’s Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer.