Verity Chegar
ISSB member
Biography
Verity Chegar was appointed to the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) in June 2022. Prior to the ISSB, Ms Chegar held a variety of sustainable investment leadership positions. Most recently, she led the California State Teachers’ Retirement System’s (CalSTRS) policy on sustainable investment and stewardship issues and managed the pension fund’s work to monitor climate risk to the total portfolio.
Previously, Ms Chegar worked at BlackRock, where she oversaw integration of sustainability-related financial information into the investment process across the firm’s global portfolio management group of public and private investment teams and advanced the consideration of material environmental and social issues for engagement and proxy voting teams. Ms Chegar was appointed as an inaugural member of the SASB Standards Board from 2017 and served as Co-Vice Chair from 2018 to 2022.
Group:
International Sustainability Standards Board
Title:
ISSB member
Appointed:
15 July 2022
Term expires:
30 June 2027
