Katie Schmitz
Director of Outreach, Global Investors
IFRS Foundation
Katie Schmitz leads the ISSB Investor Advisory Group, comprising over 60 leading global asset owners and managers – with >US$74 Trillion AUM – supporting a global baseline standard for the communication of corporate performance on sustainability-related risks and opportunities relevant to investors. This reprises similar roles Katie has played at the Value Reporting Foundation, prior to its merger with IFRS in August 2022 and at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board.
Katie worked with investment bank Salomon Brothers for over a decade in the US, Japan, and Hong Kong. Her experience in project development and finance spans the energy sector (both fossil fuels and renewables), the protection of forested lands, and water disinfection in developing markets.
She holds a BA in Japanese from the University of California, Berkeley, an MBA from l’Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau, France, an executive certificate in sustainability from the Presidio Graduate School of San Francisco, and a Global Competent Boards Designation.