Marisa Buchanan serves as senior vice president of strategic corporates and partnerships for bp, where 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 led bp’s environmental commodities business for bp supply, trading, and shipping.
Marisa has nearly 25 years of experience working at the nexus of business, energy, and sustainability. Prior to joining bp in 2022, she spent more than 10 years leading sustainable finance strategy at JPMorgan Chase, including as managing director and global head of sustainability, where she led a team responsible for developing and implementing pragmatic sustainable finance initiatives across the firm’s lines of business and operations. She also led JPMorgan Chase’s efforts on sustainability reporting, shareholder and client engagement, and sustainable finance policy and regulation.
Earlier in her career, Marisa 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 previously held roles in companies developing renewable energy assets and emissions-reduction projects for the voluntary and compliance carbon markets.
She received a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College and a Master of Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.