Martina Macpherson

Martina has over 20 years of sustainable finance and impact investing experience, in industry, policy and academia, including at SIX Exchanges Group, ODDO BHF AM, S&P Global, MSCI, Lloyds Banking Group, and Deutsche Bank. She is an award-winning sustainability and regulatory expert, author and entrepreneur, with a strong focus on ESG and FinTech.

Martina heads and directs the VBA`s Sustainable Finance efforts. She is a Board Member at the Future of Sustainable Data Alliance (FoSDA), an Advisory Board Member of the ESG Liaison Group, Houses of Parliament UK, a Consultative Working Group Member of the Sustainability Standards Committee at ESMA, and an EFRAG VSME Standard Committee Member. She is a Fellow at the Institute for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, and a Lecturer at Henley Business School and University of Zurich

Martina has (co-)authored a range of ESG and Fintech books, including “The AI Book” (Wiley, 2020), the “Handbook on Species Extinction Accounting and Biodiversity” (Routledge, 2022), a book on “ESG in Portfolio Analysis” (RiskBooks, 2022) and the “Research Handbook on Sustainability Reporting (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024). She is currently completing books on “Sustainability Assurance” and on “Climate Finance” (Routledge, 2025-6).

For her work in sustainable finance and leadership, she was awarded the title “Top 50 Woman in Finance” by the World Finance Forum (WFF) in 2022 and nominated as a global “Sustainability Ambassador” by the Global Thinkers Forum in 2024.