Ashley Schulten, Director, is the Head of Climate Solutions, Fixed Income, within the Portfolio Solutions Group. Ms. Schulten is a portfolio manager on global green and socially responsible mandates and leads the coordination of the BlackRock firm wide Green Bond effort. She partners with Blackrock's Global Fixed Income team to bring ESG and climate risk integration strategies to the investment process. Previous to BlackRock, Ms. Schulten spent 20 years as a sell side interest rate and options trader, most recently at Goldman Sachs.

Ms. Schulten earned a BA in Political Science from Vanderbilt University in 1992. She serves on the Executive Committee of Green Bond Principles and Cicero's Climate Finance Board. She has contributed to publications on green finance including "Investor Expectations of the Green Bond Market" through Ceres and "Categorizing Climate Risk for Investors" through the Cicero Center for International Climate Research. In her personal capacity, she sits on the Board of the Mianus River Gorge, the first Nature Conservancy land project.