Mary Jane McQuillen is the Director of the Socially Aware Investment (SAI) Program at ClearBridge Advisors. With this directive, she leads the portfolio management strategies for the various Socially Aware portfolios at ClearBridge. Her responsibilities include integrating ESG research into the stock-selection process for institutional and high net worth client portfolios. Mary Jane has been with the SAI program since 1996, and prior to this, she was an analyst for Smith Barney Harris Upham, Inc.

Mary Jane is on the Board of Directors for the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA), with more than 11,000 members; NYSSA is the largest of the 135 financial analyst societies worldwide. She was the former Chair and Vice Chair of the Socially Responsible Investing Committee at NYSSA.

Mary Jane is also on the Board of the Social Investment Forum (SIF), the national membership association dedicated to advancing the concept, practice and growth of social investment. She is a Steering Committee member of the Social Investment Research Analyst Network (SIRAN), a working group of the (SIF).

Mary Jane is a long-standing, active member of the United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Asset Management Working Group (AMWG), which is a collaboration of fourteen asset managers from around the world who seek to integrate ESG into investment decision-making on a global level.

She received her MBA from Columbia Business School, where she serves as Co-Chair of the Bernstein Center on Leadership & Ethics Board. She holds a B.S. in Finance from Fordham University and is an alumna of Columbia University's Center for Environmental Research and Conservation (CERC), where she serves on the Alumni Advisory Committee.