Dr Mirjam Staub-Bisang is a Swiss investment executive and board chair with more than 25 years of experience across asset management, private markets, sustainable investing and development finance.
She is Chair of SIFEM, the Swiss Development Finance Institution, which invests in private-sector businesses and funds across emerging and frontier markets, and Chair of BlackRock Asset Management Switzerland. She also serves on the Investment Committee of British International Investment (BII), the UK’s development finance institution, as well as on several boards and investment committees in Switzerland and internationally.
Previously, she was CEO and Country Head of BlackRock Switzerland and a member of BlackRock’s EMEA Executive Committee. Her career has spanned different market cycles, asset classes and geographies, investing across public and private markets and working with institutional and private investors globally. This has given her a deep understanding of how capital is allocated and how investment priorities evolve in response to economic, technological and societal change.
Mirjam is the author of books on sustainable and infrastructure investing. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Zurich, an MBA from INSEAD and is admitted to the Zurich Bar.