Fiona Stewart, Lead Financial Sector Specialist, joined the Long-term Finance Team in the World Bank's Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice in 2012. Fiona provides policy advice on pension and insurance market reform to governments and regulators around the world. She also helps coordinate the Bank’s work on sustainable finance, including representing the institution at the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group on and Co-Chairing the Finance Taskforce under the UN Decade on Restoration. From 2004, Fiona worked for the OECD’s
Financial Affairs Division and led the Secretariat of the International Organisation of Pension Supervisors (IOPS). Prior to the OECD, Fiona worked in the pension fund industry, including as head of American Express Asset Management in Japan. She served on the advisory board of the OECD pension fund and represents the World Bank staff on the organization’s Pension Fund Committee. She holds degrees from Oxford and Johns Hopkins Universities and a Chartered Financial Analyst qualification.