Marisa Buchanan serves as senior vice president of bp’s strategic corporates and partnerships team, a role she has held since November 2024. In this capacity, she leads a global team focused on managing strategic customer relationships, scaling business development, and incubating new commercial solutions to customers’ complex and evolving energy needs. She previously served as senior vice president of low carbon solutions, where she led bp’s environmental commodities business for bp supply, trading, and shipping.
Prior to joining bp in 2022, Buchanan spent more than 10 years leading sustainable finance strategy at JPMorgan Chase, including as managing director and global head of sustainability. Earlier in her career, she was an energy analyst at Bloomberg where her research focused on assessing the impacts of energy policy and regulation on the electric power and oil and gas sectors. She also held roles in companies developing renewable energy assets and emissions-reduction projects for the voluntary and compliance carbon markets. Buchanan received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College and a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She resides in Washington, D.C.