Pavlo Taranenko

Executive Director, Equity Index Solutions, MSCI Inc.

Pavlo Taranenko is Executive Director of Equity Index Solutions within MSCI Research & Development, where he is responsible for the construction and maintenance of the firm's key equity-index methodologies. He has been frequently quoted by outlets such as the Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal on market classification (frontier, emerging, and developed) and country inclusion decisions within MSCI indexes, including the cases of Pakistan, Nigeria, Argentina, and Saudi Arabia. He holds an MBA from Griffith University and a master's degree in Applied Finance from Queensland University of Technology (QUT).