Jonathan Philip Torop (born May 3, 1968) is a Financial Advisor and Managing Director at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Morgan Stanley Private Bank, N.A., based at 55 East 52nd Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10055, reporting to branch manager Carl M. Jean. He specializes in serving high-net-worth families in the US and Europe, managing approximately $329 million in client assets. He works alongside client associate Gregory Lang, who joined his team at Goldman Sachs in 2008 and followed him through subsequent firms. Torop joined Morgan Stanley in February 2024 after serving as Managing Director at UBS Financial Services Inc. from March 2013 to February 2024, where he was recruited with approximately $329 million in portable assets. Prior to UBS, he worked in Credit Suisse's Private Banking division from 2009 to 2013, where in September 2011 he was subject to a pending customer complaint alleging failure to follow client instructions on bonds, potentially resulting in unnecessary tax liabilities with claimed damages of $0. He began his financial career at Goldman Sachs in 1999 as a Vice President in the Private Wealth Management Group, following completion of his MBA at Yale School of Management (1997-1999), and remained there for a decade. With over 24 years in the financial industry, he was recognized in Barron's 2012 Top 100 Financial Advisors. Before transitioning to finance, Torop was a Middle East policy analyst who played a notable role in neoconservative foreign policy circles. He graduated from Wesleyan University with high honors in English (1990), then spent a year teaching English at Japanese junior high schools as an employee of Japan's Ministry of Education (1991-1992), later earning a Master's Degree in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University (1993-1995). He subsequently served as a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) in Washington, DC, where he participated in the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS) Clean Break study group, specializing in Israeli security strategy and contributing to the influential 1996 policy paper 'A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,' prepared for incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; in 1997, he published 'Arafat and the Uses of Terror' in Commentary Magazine, and in 2005, he and his wife Barrie Silverman were listed as donors to WINEP. Despite his career in finance, Torop has maintained deep ties to Middle East policy through board positions: he currently serves as a Trustee for The Middle East Forum, engaging in its educational and research activities; as a Trustee of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy (ISGAP), where he helped fund the 2010 Yale conference on global antisemitism. He resides in Greenwich, Connecticut with his wife Barrie Silverman, whom he married in 2005. His political contributions include donations to Jeb Bush ($4,000), Eliot Engel ($2,500), George W. Bush ($400), and Michael Bennet ($200). He is active on LinkedIn with approximately 260 connections. CRD# 4010237.