Marisa Drew

During her 30-year career, Marisa has occupied a diverse range of roles, the most recent being her current appointment as Chief Sustainability Officer for Standard Chartered Bank She started her career at Merrill Lynch in 1992 and joined Credit Suisse in 2003 in the investment banking area. Then, in 2017 Marisa founded the Impact Advisory and Finance Group of which she was CEO.

She is currently Non Executive Director at Agronomics, the leading publicly listed venture capital firm focused on cellular agriculture and Non-Executive Director of Liberty Global, a US-listed broadband and mobile communications company.

She is currently on the advisory boards of the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy, the FCA’s Markets Practitioner Panel, and on several High-Level Working Groups (HLGs) sponsored by the World Economic Forum. She was previously on the advisory boards of the Aspen Institute UK, the UN Oceans Panel, Cash & Rocket, The Wharton School and Impact Gstaad.

Marisa’s external activities include charitable Advisory Board roles for the Re-Ocean Fund, the City of London Corporation, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the UK charity Room-to-Read.

In 2022, Marisa was recognised by Sustainability Magazine as one of the Top 10 CSOs of a Global Corporation, and in 2021 as one of 100 Global Visionary Leaders by Meaningful Business and EY.

She has also been recognised 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.