Shannon Graduate Earns $7M

Martina Cheung, who graduated from Shannon College of Hotel Management in 1997, earned total remuneration of $7m last year for her role as president, CEO, and board member of S&P Global, the international ratings company.

In 2022 her total remuneration exceeded $11m.

She was previously president of S&P Global Ratings and served as executive lead of S&P Global Sustainable 1. She joined the company in 2010 as vice president-operations and served as the company’s chief strategy officer.

Prior to joining S&P Global, Ms. Cheung worked for Accenture’s Financial Services Strategy group and later as a Partner at Mitchell Madison Consulting.

Ms. Cheung was named one of the “Most Powerful Women in Finance” by American Banker and included on the list of “Influential Women in Institutional Investing” by Pensions & Investments in 2024. Also in 2024, INvolve named her to its “100 Empower Executives” list for the second consecutive year. ????

Ms. Cheung is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and served on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) subcommittee on Climate-Related Market Risk.??????

She serves on the Board of Trustees for Catholic Charities New York and was a member of the Board of CRISIL, a global analytics company and India’s leading credit ratings agency.???

She holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce and a master’s degree in business studies from National University of Ireland, Galway.??


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