Laura Baxter-Simons
General Counsel, Meritage Group LP
Berkeley, CA
Laura Baxter-Simons (B.A. ’89, Economics and German, UC Berkeley; J.D. ’92, Stanford; M.A. ’94, German Literature, UC Berkeley) is general counsel at Meritage Group, a U.S.-based investment management firm, and has worked in the financial industry with her husband, Nat Simons, for over 30 years. Prior to Meritage, Ms. Baxter-Simons worked at Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund, as legal counsel from 1996 to 2011.
Ms. Baxter-Simons has been involved in climate philanthropy since 2006 as well as cleantech investing since 2009. She and her husband serve as co-directors of Sea Change Foundation and Sea Change Foundation International, which focus on climate mitigation globally. They are also the co-founders of Prelude Ventures, a family-held cleantech investment fund.
Ms. Baxter-Simons currently serves on the Stanford Law School Dean’s Advisory Council. Ms. Baxter-Simons and Mr. Simons are Builders of Berkeley and members of the Giving Pledge. They have two children, who both live and work in New York City.