ALFI Global Asset Management Conference

Anastasia Petraki, Director, is BlackRock's Head of Sustainability for Germany, Austria, German-speaking Switzerland and Eastern Europe. Anastasia joined in January 2023, and, in this role, she partners to drive the growth of the sustainability business across the region. This includes collaborating with sales, product and investment teams to drive innovation and position the firm as the transition partner of choice with our clients. She represents the firm on local industry bodies and is a member of the EEGA Executive Committee.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Anastasia worked as a Sustainability Investment Director at Schroders Investment Management in London, UK, where she drove client engagement and firm response to sustainability regulations, was policy lead on sustainability globally and delivered the sustainable education agenda for sales. Prior to this role, she worked as Head of Policy Research, developing thought leadership research on all aspects of policy and regulation in asset management, including sustainability and stewardship, retail investor participation, fund costs and charges, and regulatory developments.

Anastasia began her career at the Investment Association in London in 2013, working first as a governance analyst and then as Head of Research and Statistics, managing the IA's regular and ad hoc research projects as well as the UK fund market statistics.

Anastasia holds a PhD from the University of Bath, UK.