Fiona Stewart

Fiona Stewart

Lead Financial Sector Specialist

Fiona Stewart is the Lead Financial Sector Specialist in the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice at the World Bank Group. Fiona provides policy advice on pension and insurance market reform to governments and regulators around the world.  She also leads the coordination the Bank’s work on sustainable finance, including representing the institution at the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group, Co-Chairing the Finance Taskforce under the UN Decade on Restoration. From 2004, Fiona worked for the OECD’s Financial Affairs Division and led the Secretariat of the International Organization 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.