Aarti Ramachandran

Head of Stewardship at UBS

Speaker

Aarti Ramachandran is Head of Stewardship at UBS Asset Management, based in London. In this role, she leads the firm's stewardship activities, overseeing engagement with portfolio companies on governance, sustainability, and long-term value creation matters. She is responsible for the development and execution of the stewardship strategy and for the implementation and oversight of proxy voting across the investment portfolio.

Before joining UBS, Aarti headed research and engagements at FAIRR, a global institutional investor network and think tank backed by $75 trillion in institutional assets. With nearly 20 years of experience in climate and sustainable investing, she began her career as a public and government affairs advisor for ExxonMobil. She holds an MS in Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University, an MA in Journalism from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and an MA in International Policy from Columbia University, New York.