From Investment Banker/SRI Sceptic to SRI Evangelist, Marisa Drew, Chief Sustainability Officer at Credit Suisse on the Great Wealth Transfer, Millennial Values, Achieving Net Zero and More (#005)

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Marisa Drew is the Chief Sustainability Officer for the Standard Chartered Bank in London as of July 2022. However, this discussion will not be about Standard Charter Bank because my interview with Marisa took place some months back when I was finishing my book, Sustainable and Responsible Investing 360º. At that time, she was the Chief Sustainability Officer for Credit Suisse, where she had worked for nearly 19 years. Today's discussion will concern Marisa's experience at the Credit Suisse sustainability program.

Marisa’s investment banking career spans over thirty years. During an eleven-year stint at Merrill Lynch, she was instrumental in the formation of their European Leveraged Finance Group, which saw her relocate to London back in 1999. In 2003 she joined Credit Suisse to establish the Leveraged Finance Origination Group. She moved over into the Sustainability area in 2017, when she established the Impact Advisory and Finance Department after which she took on the additional role of Chief Sustainability Officer which we discuss today.

Marisa attributes her successful transition into the Sustainability area to her traditional capital markets background and being able to “speak the language of the institutional investment community” to mobilize capital at scale in the private sector in order to help solve some of the world’s biggest environmental and social challenges.
Show notes: https://sri360.com/podcast/marisa-drew

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SELECTED LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• Connect with Marisa Drew: LinkedIN
• Credit Suisse
• The Trump Group
• Merrill Lynch
• Standard Chartered Bank
• Global Women’s Financial Forum
• Funding Circle
• Impact Advisory and Finance (IAF) Department
• Sustainability Strategy, Advisory, and Finance (SSAF)
• Next Generation Education Program
• Young Investors Program
• JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM)
• Climate Bonds Initiative
• BlackRock