Tony served as man­ag­er of  Phase I of the EcoBlock project, which end­ed in 2018.

The EcoBlick is an urban sus­tain­abil­i­ty exper­i­ment in Oak­land, CA. The project brings togeth­er a mul­ti-dis­ci­pli­nary team of urban design­ers, engi­neers, social sci­en­tists, and pol­i­cy experts from UC Berke­ley, Lawrence Berke­ley Nation­al Labs, NASA Ames Research Cen­ter and Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, as well as local grass­roots orga­ni­za­tions, non-prof­its, local util­i­ties PG&E & EBMUD, the City of Oak­land and the State of California.

The goal is to EcoBlock demon­strate inte­grat­ed solu­tions that dra­mat­i­cal­ly reduce home and neigh­bor­hood GHG emis­sions, dra­mat­i­cal­ly cut water con­sump­tion, recy­cle waste­water, enable organ­ic urban food sys­tems, and pro­mote invest­ment in jobs, renew­ables and green infrastructure.

Tony received his under­grad­u­ate edu­ca­tion at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty and Paris-IV Sor­bonne in His­to­ry and Anthro­pol­o­gy. He pur­sued grad­u­ate work in medieval Mid­dle East­ern his­to­ry at the Sor­bonne, the Amer­i­can Uni­ver­si­ty of Cairo and Colum­bia, research­ing the eco­nom­ic his­to­ry and admin­is­tra­tion of the irri­ga­tion sys­tems in the agri­cul­tur­al lands between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dur­ing the late Sas­sanid (5^th-7^th CE) and Abbasid (8^th-11^th CE) empires.

Tony holds an MBA from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chicago’s Booth School of Busi­ness and worked in cor­po­rate finance in the City of Lon­don for JP Mor­gan, Bar­clays and ING Bar­ings before trans­fer­ring to Bryan Gar­nier in Paris. There­after, he estab­lished his own Invest­ment Fund spe­cial­iz­ing in alter­na­tive assets. In 2013, he tran­si­tioned from Finance to Sus­tain­abil­i­ty with a par­tic­u­lar inter­est in the con­ver­gence of eco­nom­ics and the envi­ron­ment. He was a Research Affil­i­ate at the Pre­sidio Grad­u­ate School dur­ing the 2014 aca­d­e­m­ic year.