Madelyn Antoncic is chief executive officer of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) where she is responsible for the overall development and maintenance of robust, financially material sustainability reporting standards. She has held leadership and management roles for over 30 years in large, complex, global financial institutions in both the private and public sectors. A former World Bank official, Madelyn is internationally recognized for her leadership and expertise on sustainable finance, risk management and governance. She is widely credited with fostering financial innovations to address World Bank member countries' vulnerabilities and financing needs created by climate-related catastrophic risk events and other non-market risk events. Madelyn has held a variety of leadership roles with major global private sector financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, Barclays Capital, Lehman Brothers, and Principal Global Investors. Madelyn began her career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She holds a Ph.D. in economics with a minor in finance from NYU Stern School and is a recipient of numerous awards including the Fulbright Scholars Award for International Cooperation; the Risk Manager of the Year Award from Risk; and was named among the 100 Most Influential People in Finance by Treasury and Risk Management.