Bio

Dr. Mirjam Staub-Bisang is Country Manager of BlackRock Switzerland, member of the EMEA Executive Committee and Senior Advisor to BlackRock Sustainable Investing. She currently also serves as a non-executive director of global shoe retailer Bata. Prior to BlackRock, she co-founded and was a Managing Partner of Independent Capital Group AG, an investment management firm with a focus on sustainable investing based in Zurich. She has served on investment committees of pension funds and endowments, as well as on the board of several public and private companies. Her responsibilities included chairing the Profond Sammelstiftung, one of Switzerland’s leading multi-employer pension plan providers. Prior to these roles she held senior positions in asset management and private equity at Commerzbank, Swiss Life, and Quadrant and was an investment banker at Merrill Lynch. Mirjam Staub-Bisang holds a PhD in Law from the University of Zurich and an MBA from INSEAD. She authored the book “Sustainable Investing for Institutional Investors: Risks, Regulations, Strategies'''' (Wiley 2012) and co-authored the second edition of ''''Infrastructure as an Asset Class'''' (Wiley 2016). In 2009 she was elected as one of the Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum. Important Disclosures: https://bit.ly/32IfMI1