Maria is Co-CEO of Nephila Climate and a member of the Climate advisory board and firm ESG Committee. She is responsible for the strategy and overseeing the investment process for our climate strategies which aim to move scalable capital to support sustainable development. Before joining us in 2015, she was a portfolio manager at SCOR Alternative Investments in Paris, where she worked on insurance-linked investments. Maria began her career with Swiss Re capital markets team working on the structuring, distribution and trading of catastrophe bonds in New York and London, working with institutional investors in North America, Asia and Europe. She has a BBA in International Business/Information Systems from The George Washington University.