Marisa Drew (Trustee) is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Standard Chartered Bank. At Standard Chartered, Ms Drew chairs the Group Sustainability Forum, drives the Bank’s net zero commitments and oversees the existing Sustainable Finance and Sustainability Strategy teams. Ms Drew has been in the investment banking industry for over 30 years. Before joining Standard Chartered, Marisa was the Chief Sustainability Officer for Credit Suisse and the Global Head of the Sustainability Strategy, Advisory & Finance Group with responsibility for strategy and creating sustainable investment products on behalf of the bank’s wealth management, institutional and corporate clients.
During her 18 years at Credit Suisse not only was she the Head of Sustainability but she established the Impact Advisory and Finance department in 2017 which she ran until mid-2020. From 2013 to 2017, she was the Co-Head of Investment Banking and Capital Markets for EMEA and before this, she was the Global CoHead of the Global Markets Solutions Group, encompassing Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets, Leveraged Finance and Equity and Debt Structured Derivatives Products. Before joining Credit Suisse, Ms Drew worked for Merrill Lynch for eleven years and prior to receiving her MBA, she worked in private equity and for the investment bank, Kidder Peabody.
In terms of external roles, Ms Drew is a non-executive board member at Liberty Global, a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications services. She was also appointed in 2020 as a non-executive director of the Swiss telecoms provider, Sunrise Communications AG. She also serves on the advisory boards of numerous leadership, sustainability, humanitarian, environmental and civil society organizations. She sits on the Advisory Board of the Aspen Institute UK, the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy and is a Trustee of the Credit Suisse Foundation. She is also a member of the FCA’s Markets Practitioner Panel and of several High-Level Working Groups (HLGs) sponsored by the World Economic Forum and the UN, including serving as co-chair of the HLG for Humanitarian Aid and the Oceans Panel. Ms Drew’s external activities also include EMEA Advisory Board roles for The Wharton School and UK charity, Room-to-Read.
Ms Drew has been recognized by the BBC as one of the Most Powerful Women in Britain and by Fortune Magazine as one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in International Business. Ms Drew has also been recognized by Financial News in its “Most Influential Women in Finance” list from 2007 through 2018.
Ms Drew received a BA in Finance and Marketing with distinction from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce in 1986 and an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School in 1992.
