Dr. Márcia Balisciano
Chief Sustainability Officer & Global Head of Corporate Responsibility,
RELX Group
Márcia is Chief Sustainability Officer and Global Head of Corporate Responsibility at RELX Group, a global provider of information-based analytics, decision tools and events with more than 36,000 people around the world. Working with colleagues throughout the business, she aims to ensure RELX’s extra-financial performance furthers competitive advantage and stakeholder confidence. RELX is ranked in the top 1% of more than 15,000 companies globally by Sustainalytics and has held an MSCI AAA sustainability rating for more than 10 consecutive years.
In 2025, she was named a top 20 CSO in Europe; a top 50 woman globally in sustainability; included in the September 2025 Powerlist and received a lifetime achievement in sustainability award from Sustainability Magazine.
She is a board member of the Foundation for the UN Global Compact and a founding board member of the Ban Ki-moon Foundation. She was the founding director of London museum and educational facility Benjamin Franklin House.
She holds an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a PHD in Economic History from the London School of Economics. She is a Member of the British Empire (MBE), an honour presented to her by the King, and lives in London with her husband and two sons.