Mary Jane McQuillen

Mary Jane McQuillen is the Head of ESG at ClearBridge Investments. Mary Jane also is a Portfolio Manager on the ClearBridge Sustainability Leaders Strategy, and prior to this she managed other ESG strategies. She has been with the ESG program at a predecessor firm since 1996 and has 29 years of investment industry experience, and is a member of the ClearBridge Investments Proxy Committee.

Mary Jane is a member of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) Listed Equities Steering Committee and the ESG Integration Sub-Committee. Mary Jane serves on the Board of Directors for both Net Impact and the Sustainable Investments Institute (Si2). She also serves on the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) Advisory Committee for the Listed Equities Working Group.

In 2022, Mary Jane was named as “Fund Manager of the Year in North America” by Investment Week (UK). In 2015, Mary Jane was named to the “Women Worth Watching” list for Financial Services. In 2008, Mary Jane was named a “Rising Star of Corporate Governance” by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management. She is also a member of Bpeace, a volunteer organization that works to introduce sustainable business skills to women in Rwanda, Afghanistan, El Salvador and Guatemala.

Mary Jane received her MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School. She holds a BS in Finance from Fordham University.