Sam Hilton

Sam is a Research Advisor at Seneca Impact Advisors, where he supports the firm’s analytical work, including landscape-level economic analysis, project origination, and funding preparation.

He was previously a Senior Research Analyst with the Environmental Finance and Bankable Nature Solutions team at WWF, where he worked on the establishment of the Climate Impact Asia Fund, a long-only equity fund.

At WWF, Sam worked with asset owners and managers on the integration of sustainability considerations into investment portfolios. He authored WWF’s Climate Primer for Institutional Investors and Assessing Portfolio Impacts: Tools to Measure Biodiversity and SDG Footprints of Financial Portfolios.

Earlier in his career, Sam was an equity research analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods and Fox-Pitt, Kelton in Hong Kong, covering financial institutions across the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to that, he spent seven years as a strategy consultant at Monitor Group, where he worked on sales, distribution, and market entry strategies for multinational clients. Sam is a graduate of Harvard College.