Corporate Governance · Stewardship
Maria Cristina Ungureanu, PhD
Governance Manager at the Qatar Investment Authority,
Chair of the Board of StePs — Association of Stewardship Professionals,
and Chair of the ICGN Global Governance Committee.
Cristina's work sits at the intersection of institutional investing, board governance and executive remuneration.
Over more than two decades she has contributed to academic research, policy consultations and boardroom practice
across Europe, the United Kingdom, South Africa and the Gulf. Co-author with Guido Ferrarini of the chapter on
Executive Remuneration in the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance (2018) and its ten-year
follow-up (ECGI Working Paper, 2024).