Von Hughes is currently the Head of Calvert Research and Management, and also serves as the President of Calvert’s Mutual Fund Board. Prior to joining Calvert, Mr. Hughes was an Executive Committee member of PAAMCO Prisma, a global hedge fund solutions provider, where he built and headed the firm’s $10B Global Strategic Advisory Group. Mr. Hughes is the author of U.S. Public Pension Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for Trustees and Investment Staff (McGraw-Hill 2019), which won a 2020 Axiom Business Book Medal and was a #1 new release on Amazon.com in four separate categories. He has also been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School since 2021, teaching a course based on his book that he conceived and designed. Mr. Hughes earned a BA graduating cum laude from Yale College. In addition, he earned a JD from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor on both the Harvard Law Review and the Civil Rights and Liberties Law Review, and an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Hughes is also a retired member of the New York State Bar.