Tia Counts

CHIEF RESPONSIBILITY AND CHIEF DIVERSITY OFFICER, MSCI INC.

Integrity. Accountability. Excellence. Those core values are the foundation of Tia’s DEI practice and personal ethos. As Chief Diversity Officer for MSCI Inc., a role she started in 2021, Tia operates across MSCI to align DEI goals with business outcomes. She combines her financial acumen with knowledge of the highly varied regulations and governance rules (e.g., in the UK and EU) necessary to create and scale the processes and operations that support MSCI’s global business objectives.

Prior to joining MSCI, Tia worked for J.P. Morgan in London for nine years, leading DEI efforts for the Asset & Wealth Management business; and developing and driving a strategy for Black talent as Head of Advancing Black Pathways for the Corporate & Investment Bank business globally, and for all businesses in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She held a variety of senior roles as a lawyer and revenue producer specializing in derivatives, including structured credit, foreign exchange, rates and equities at Morgan Stanley in New York and London. Her career began in 1997 as a corporate finance attorney specializing in debt capital markets (for Latin American companies) and derivatives at Clifford Chance, a “magic circle” law firm headquartered in London.

Tia earned her Juris Doctor from Columbia University Law School and her B.A. in Sociology and Spanish from the University of California at Berkeley. Originally from Los Angeles, Tia resides in Clapham, London.