Sandra Boss, Senior Managing Director, is the Chair of BlackRock UK. She is a leader in the firm’s mission to serve wealth and institutional clients with the solutions they need to meet their investment objectives. She serves as a strategic advisor to the Head of the International Business, and is a member of BlackRock’s Global Operating Committee and co-Chair for the firm’s Global DEI committee.

Sandy brings deep client experience and global orientation to this role. In May 2020, Sandy joined BlackRock as Global Head of Investment Stewardship. In that role, she was a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee and was responsible for leading BlackRock Investment Stewardship in all its activities, including launching the firm’s pioneering Voting Choice program. In 2023, Sandy became the Chief Operating Officer for the Global Client business, responsible for systematizing key aspects of the firm’s primary commercial businesses.

Prior to BlackRock, Sandy served at the Bank of England as an external member of the Prudential Regulation Committee and the senior independent member and risk committee chair of the board that oversees the UK’s high-value payment and settlement system. She is a former senior partner at McKinsey & Co. where she was a strategic advisor to executives and boards of global companies in financial services and other industries.

Sandy has served as non-executive director at two public companies: Elementis Global and Enstar Group. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) and previously served as a member of board for Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC).

Sandy received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Stanford University.