Sebastian Thomas is a senior research analyst, director and lead portfolio manager of the Global Artificial Intelligence strategy at Allianz Global Investors, which he joined in 2003. He heads the firm’s US technology/telecom research effort and is responsible for covering large- and mid-cap software and internet technology companies. Thomas has over 24 years of investment-industry experience, having worked at Roger Engemann & Associates (a Phoenix Investment Partners company), Fidelity Management and Research, Morgan Stanley, and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
Quim Abril is President and Portfolio Manager of Draco Global Sicav at Gesiuris AM.
Mary-Therese Barton joined Pictet Asset Management in 2004 and is Head of Emerging Market Fixed Income, overseeing the Emerging Market Sovereign, Corporate and Greater China debt strategies.
Prior to joining Pictet she worked at Dun & Bradstreet, where she was an economist responsible for analysing European countries.
Mary-Therese graduated with a BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Balliol College, Oxford. She also holds an MSc with distinction in Development Finance from the Centre for Financial Management Studies, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), part of the University of London. Mary-Therese is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder.
Prashant Agarwal joined Pictet Asset Management‘s Fixed Income Credit Research team in 2004 as Credit Analyst. He is now a Senior Investment Manager specializing in High Yield in the Fixed Income team.
Supriya Menon is Senior Multi-Asset Strategist at Pictet Asset Management.
Jonathan Baltora is Head of Sovereign, Inflation and FX – Core at AXA Investment Managers.
Marc-André Bechet is Deputy Director General of ALFI – Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry
Mona Mahajan is the US investment strategist and a director with Allianz Global Investors, which she joined in 2017. As a member of the Global Economics and Strategy team, she is responsible for providing US retail and institutional clients with differentiated investment thought leadership. Previously, she worked at MetLife, Mirae Asset Global Investments, and at hedge fund companies Para Advisors and Ziff Brothers Investments.
Nikolay Markov joined Pictet Asset Management in 2013 as an Economist in the Fixed Income Department. Before joining Pictet AM, he was working in the Monetary Policy Unit of the Swiss National Bank where performed research on monetary policy rules for Switzerland. Prior to working at the Swiss National Bank he was a teaching and research assistant at the University of Geneva and participated in international academic conferences.
Stephen Freedman joined Pictet Asset Management (Pictet AM) in 2019 and serves as Senior Client Portfolio Manager for Pictet SmartCity. He is head of Research and Sustainability for Thematic Equities and also chairs the Thematic Advisory Boards.
Before joining Pictet AM, Stephen was at UBS Wealth Management, where he most recently served as head of Sustainable Investing Solutions for the Americas, based in New York. Prior to that he served in various Investment Strategy roles, including head of Thematic Investing Strategy and head of Tactical Asset Allocation. He started his career with UBS in Zurich in 1998 as an economist and public policy analyst. Since 2018, he has been teaching environmental finance at New York University. He was also the founding co-chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Sustainable Finance from 2016 to 2019.
