Head of Sustainable Investing and Stewardship, Marshall Wace
Ilaria Calabresi is the Head of Sustainable Investing and Stewardship (Office of the CIO) at Marshall Wace. Ilaria coordinates the integration of Sustainable Investing principles across Marshall Wace’s various investment Strategies. She centralises stewardship efforts and interactions with investee companies and coordinates proxy voting activities. Prior to joining Marshall Wace, Ilaria had worked at J.P. Morgan Private Bank since 2010. Ilaria was an Executive Director and the Sustainable Investing Lead for EMEA, Asia and Latin America. Previously she had been part of J.P. Morgan Private Bank’s portfolio management team for the sustainable multi-manager portfolios acting as a lead for the International Private Bank. Ilaria started her career researching renewable energy assets and worked at Next Energy Capital, a private equity fund focused on solar assets. Ilaria was a post graduate researcher in Finance at Imperial College Business School and earned a Double Master’s Degree cum laude with a specialization in Finance from LUISS University in Rome and Fudan University in Shanghai.