Marisa Drew

Marisa Drew

Chief Sustainability Officer for Standard Chartered Bank

Marisa Drew is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Standard Chartered Bank where she is responsible for driving the sustainability strategy of the bank, which includes what Standard Chartered does as an organisation but also their advisory and financing activities for and on behalf of their clients.

 

Prior to her current role, she was the Chief Sustainability officer and CEO of the Impact Advisory and Finance Group at Credit Suisse where she was responsible for setting the strategy and facilitating activities across the bank which led to Sustainable Finance and Impact Investing on behalf of the bank’s private wealth, institutional and corporate clients. From 2013 to 2017, Marisa was the Co-Head of the EMEA Investment Banking and Capital Markets (IBCM) Division.

 

Marisa is active in recruitment, diversity and philanthropic initiatives in the industry. Her external roles and affiliations include sitting on the UK Advisory Board for Room-to-Read Charity and the EMEA Advisory Board for The Wharton School. In 2022, Ms Drew 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. Ms Drew has also 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.

 

Marisa received a BA in Finance and Marketing with distinction from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce and an MBA with distinction from the Wharton School.