Debra McCoy, Managing Director & Portfolio Manager, is Head of Sustainable Investing with the Systematic Active Equity division of BlackRock's Active Equities Group.

Ms. McCoy joined the firm in 2015. Ms. McCoy began her career with Bain in San Francisco and Johannesburg; later, at Citigroup, in New York and New Delhi. Previously, Ms. McCoy worked for Stanford University, where she conceived and co-taught the MBA finance course, "Frontier Market Private Equity," and was a part of the endowment's private equity team.

Ms. McCoy is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Directors of TechnoServe and Board of Governors of the San Francisco Symphony. For one year, she served as a non-partisan, Presidentially-appointed White House Fellow at the U.S. Department of State.

Ms. McCoy received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Howard University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and MBA from Harvard Business School.