Marisa Buchana

Marisa Buchana

SVP, Strategic Corporates & Partnerships - Gas & Low Carbon Energy

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Marisa has nearly 25 years of experience working in a variety of roles and organizations at the nexus of business, energy
and carbon. 

She currently serves as senior vice president of bp’s strategic corporates & partnerships team, a role she started in 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 our customers’ evolving energy needs.

Marisa joined bp in 2022 as senior vice president of low carbon solutions, where she led bp’s downstream biogas and carbon markets businesses for bp trading & shipping. 

Prior to joining bp, she spent over 10 years in sustainable finance at JPMorgan Chase, including as Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainability, where she led a team responsible for developing and driving implementation of pragmatic and commercial sustainable finance strategies 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 & gas sectors. She also previously held roles in companies developing renewable energy assets and emission reduction projects for the voluntary and compliance carbon markets.

She received a B.A. from Wellesley College and a M.P.A. from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.