Jeremy Porter

Dr. Jeremy Porter is a Managing Director at MSCI, where he leads economic research and product development on the financial implications of physical climate risk. He is also a Professor of Sociology at CUNY and Director of the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. A founding member of First Street, Dr. Porter previously served as Chief Economist and Head of Climate Implications Research, building models on how climate exposure affects property values, migration, and risk transfer work that culminated in First Street's acquisition by MSCI in August 2026. He has authored three books and over 150 peer-reviewed papers and is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Spatial Demography. Dr. Porter holds a Ph.D. in Sociology/Demography from Mississippi State University (2008).