Managing Director & APAC Co-head of Sustainable Investing
BlackRock

Emily Woodland, CFA, Managing Director, joined BlackRock in April 2021 as the firm's APAC Co-head of Sustainable Investing. Her team oversees the strategy and implementation of BlackRock’s sustainable offerings across the APAC region.

Emily previously served as the Head of Sustainable Investment at AMP Capital, and prior to that as Investment Advisor for Asia Debt Management’s sustainable investment programmes. Her sustainability expertise is grounded in over 16 years of investment experience with UBS dating back to 2000, where she started in equity and convertible bond trading, served as a portfolio manager with the firm’s Fundamental Investment Group, and as a portfolio manager with the long/short absolute return hedge fund portfolio in UBS Asset Management.

Emily has a Bachelor's Degree in Financial & Business Economics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and a Masters Degree in Corporate Environmental Governance from the University of Hong Kong.