Fiona Stewart, Global Lead for Aging and Pensions, is part of the World Bank's Social Protection team, providing policy advice to governments around the world. Fiona has been with the Bank since 2012, previously with the Finance and Markets teams as the Global Lead for Insurance & Pensions. She also helped to coordinate the Bank's work on sustainable finance, including representing the institution at the G20. Sustainable Finance Working Group, Co-Chairing the Finanace Taskforce under the UN Decade on Restoration and acting as Secreteray to the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Change. From 2004, Fiona worked for the OECD's Financial Affairs Division and led the Secretariat of International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS). Prior to the OECD, Fiona worked in the pension fund industry, including as Head of American Express Asset Management in Japan. She served on the advisory board of one the OECD’s pension funds and represents the World Bank staff on the organization’s Pension Fund Committee. She holds degrees from Oxford and Johns Hopkins Universities and a Chartered Financial Analyst qualification.
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