Speaker Profile

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Fiona Melrose

Head of Group Strategy & ESG
UniCredit S.p.A.
Fiona started her career at the Bank of England in banking supervision. She then moved into bank equity research where she covered European and later Global Banks for over 20 years most recently at Royal Bank of Canada. She moved into Strategy in 2017 as Global Head of Strategy for UBS Investment Bank and then to Strategy at Santander. In May 2021, Fiona was appointed Head of Group Strategy & Optimisation and as of February 2022, Head of Group Strategy and ESG. She is responsible for the definition of the ESG Strategy embedding ESG across the group including commitments and policies, which includes cascading a culture of sustainability across UniCredit.