Peggy Smyth
U.S. Senior Advisor - Global Infrastructure, QJC
U.S. Senior Advisor - Global Infrastructure, QJC; Former CFO, National Grid U.S.; Board Member, Etsy, Frontier Communications, Remitly and Lilium
Ms. Smyth has served as a Senior Advisor/Partner, Global Infrastructure to QIC, a global infrastructure investor focused on ESG-themed investments since July 2021. From 2014 to June 2021, she was the U.S. Chief Financial Officer of National Grid, a multinational energy company, overseeing all finance, accounting, transactional, and property services. Previously, Ms. Smyth served as Vice President of Finance at Consolidated Edison, Inc., Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Hamilton Sundstrand, and Vice President and Corporate Controller of United Technologies Corporation. Earlier in her career, she served as the Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of 3M Corporation and in senior leadership roles at Deloitte and Arthur Andersen. Ms. Smyth currently serves on the boards of Etsy, Inc., Remitly Global, Inc., and Lilium N.V., each of which is publicly held. She is experienced in advancing sustainability accounting practices and is a Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (“SASB”) FSA Credential Holder. Additionally, Ms. Smyth is a member of the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellows Program and holds a Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight from Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. She holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Fordham University and a Master’s degree in accounting from New York University’s Stern School of Business.