2016 Audubon Medal Awardee: Paul Tudor Jones II
A long-time advocate for iconic landscapes like the Florida Everglades, Paul Tudor Jones combines conservation with economic sustainability and habitat protection.
Paul Jones is founder, Co-Chairman, Chief Investment Officer and the controlling principal of Tudor Investment Corporation (“Tudor”) which he formed in 1980. Tudor is part of the Tudor Group, a group of affiliated companies engaged in trading in the fixed income, equity, currency and commodity markets.
Paul served as Chairman of the New York Cotton Exchange (August 1992–June 1995) and was instrumental in the creation of its Financial Instrument Exchange (FINEX). His philanthropic service includes founder, former chair, and current board member of the Robin Hood Foundation; founder and former board member of the Excellence Charter School; founder of the Bedford Stuyvesant I Have A Dream program; former chair and current board member of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation; former chair and current board member of The Everglades Foundation Inc.; current Director of StudentsFirst NY; co-founder and current member of the Advisory Board of the University of Virginia’s Contemplative Sciences Center; current Director and Vice-chair of JUST Capital Foundation, Inc.; current Trustee of NYU Langone Medical Center, current board member of the Apollo Theater Foundation, and Chairman of the Sonima Foundation.
Paul holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia (1976). Paul is married to Sonia, with whom he has four children, and resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.