ESG DAY 2025

Fiona Melrose

Head of Group Strategy and ESG, UniCredit

Fiona started her career at the Bank of England in Banking Supervision in 1992, before moving to NatWest Markets where she worked from 1994-1999. She moved to Morgan Stanley in 2000 and then Lehman where she covered German, Nordic and Swiss banks. Following this, Fiona  joined Execution Noble, where she built the European banks research product and then RBC Capital Markets from 2011-2017 where she led the development of a new bank equity research team and covered Global Investment and Private Banks. In 2017, Fiona joined UBS as Global Head of Strategy for the Investment Bank and in 2019, she moved to Grupo Santander in Strategy & Corporate Development. More recently she has worked at Bankers without Boundaries, a social enterprise that mobilises private capital to invest in projects that benefit the environment. In May 2021, Fiona is appointed Head of Group Strategy & Optimisation.In February 2022, Fiona is appointed Head of Strategy and ESG.

Rossella Iorio

Group ESG, UniCredit

Rossella Iorio is responsible for the activities of ESG Service Excellence team, reporting directly to the Head of Group Strategy and ESG of the UniCredit Group. She is passionate and experienced in sustainability issues, with a background in risk management. Among the activities she is dealing with the prevention of the risk of greenwashing, driving ESG cultural change through targeted training on sustainability topics and social projects at Group level, circular economy and biodiversity.

Tito Boeri

Professor and Head of the Economics Department at Bocconi University in Milan, Senior Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics

Tito Boeri is professor and head of the economics department at Bocconi University in Milan (where he had also been Pro-rector for research until fall 2014) and Senior Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics (where he was Centennial Professor). He has been senior economist at the OECD, consultant to the IMF, World Bank, EU, ILO as well as to the Italian Government. From March 2015 to February 2019 he served as President of INPS. He is Scientific Advisor to the Fondazione Ing. Rodolfo Debenedetti. He is a columnist for La Repubblica and has collaborated with Italian and foreign newspapers, including Il Sole24ore, La Stampa, the Financial Times and Le Monde. He is one of the founders of the economic information website www.lavoce.info and the federated English-language website www.voxeu.org. He is the scientific director of the Turin Festival of Economics.

Giuseppe Zammarchi

Group ESG, UniCredit

Giuseppe Zammarchi is UniCredit's Sustainability Reporting Manager. He is in charge of ESG metrics and policies, reporting directly to the Head of Group Strategy & ESG. At the same time, he is also leading the Group's Net Zero team. Giuseppe began his career at Arthur Andersen in 1997. After three years, he joined UniCredit's Investor Relations function, covering relationships with institutional investors and equity analysts. He then took on responsibility for Executive Communications, before joining the staff of the Group Chief Risk Officer. In 2017, he joined the Group Sustainability team. Giuseppe holds a degree in Business Management from Bocconi University.

Elizabeth Meager

Acting deputy editor at Sustainable Views

Elizabeth Meager is acting deputy editor at Sustainable Views. She is primarily focused on climate and sustainability developments in the US, particularly on how political forces are reshaping the sustainability debate. Elizabeth has been writing about financial law and regulation for a decade and was previously managing editor of a specialist corporate law title.

Lucia Marin

Deputy Head of Unit - E.1 Green Finance and Investments, DG Environment, European Commission

Lucia started her professional career as a lawyer in France before integrating the European Commission in 2011 where she worked on various EU financial services files. In 2015, Lucia joined the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) for two years. Back in the Commission, she joined DG FISMA's International affairs unit, holding different roles (part of the team dealing with EU-UK relations in financial services, team leader on international sustainable finance, deputy head of unit). Lucia is now the deputy head of the DG ENV "Green Finance and Investments" Unit which contributes to the achievement and implementation of the EU environmental policies and the associated sustainability transitions, by helping to mobilise the necessary public and private investments and by helping to mainstream environmental sustainability into the financial sector. Lucia holds a double Master degree in European law and in Public Economic Law from the Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne University.

Frauke Fischer

Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology
Biocenter, University of Würzburg, Managing Partner Agentur auf!

Dr. Frauke Fischer is a biodiversity expert, scientist, consultant, speaker and author.

She graduated in 1989 and moved for her PhD to the University of Würzburg, where she conducted research in the Comoé National Park in Côte d'Ivoire. After the PhD, she became the director of the International Research Station of the University of Würzburg in the Comoé National Park. In 2002, she established a study program in International Conservation. In 2003, she founded "Agentur auf!" Germany's first management consultancy with a focus on biodiversity. In 2015, she co-founded PERÚ PURO a small direct-trade coffee and cocoa company. Frauke Fischer is an invited member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas and the IUCN Species Survival Commission and appointed member of the Sustainability Committee of the Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and to the Scientific Board of WWF Germany. She received several international awards. Frauke Fischer has authored over 80 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and podcasts and wrote five popular science books focusing on biodiversity issues. 

Silvia Cappellini

General Manager of UniCredit Foundation

Silvia Cappellini started her career in 1992 in EY as Senior Auditor. She moved to The Coca-Cola Company in 1997 where she covered various roles, with growing responsibilities. She was eventually nominated in 2015 as Public Affairs & Communication Community Director Europe, responsible for the stewardship of The Coca-Cola Foundation across 38 markets. In 2018 she moved to a private foundation, where she developed social initiatives in collaboration with profit organizations.
In March 2022, Silvia joined the UniCredit Foundation, where she was last later appointed as General Manager, in November 2022.