Maria heads the Global ESG Advisory team for Sustainable Finance at Standard Chartered Bank, supporting the bank’s clients in their sustainability and transition strategies, offering advisory in disclosure, ESG ratings and strategic planning. Maria has over 25 years’ experience serving as Managing Director in investment banking with Lazard, UBS, Sberbank and UniCredit. Prior to joining Standard Chartered, she has held key roles in sustainable investment solutions and strategies in reputable financial institutions including heading the ESG Client Strategies team in Invesco Global Asset Management EMEA. She also ordinated the global investor initiative group at CDP Disclosure. She is authors of ESG thought leadership whitepapers, mentor, and contributor to industry initiatives in sustainable financing.