Alexander Kozhemiakin

Managing Director, Head of Emerging Markets Debt 1. Joined Macquarie in 2018 2. Based in New York Alex is Head of the Emerging Markets Debt Team within Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) Credit, a role he assumed when he joined the firm in December 2018. He holds overall responsibility for the team, which manages the full spectrum of emerging markets debt strategies, including sovereign, local currency, and corporate. He is a lead PM for the EMD Select Opportunities strategy, the Team's flagship product. With nearly a quarter of a century of experience in EMD, Alex served as Head of Emerging Markets Debt at Standish Mellon Asset Management prior to joining Macquarie. Before that, he worked as an Emerging Markets Debt Portfolio Manager at Putnam Investments and as a Sovereign Analyst at Citibank. He earned an Honors Degree from Moscow State Institute of International Relations and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition, Alex held a postdoctoral fellowship in Strategic Studies at Harvard University and is an author of the book, Expanding the Zone of Peace? Democratization and International Security (Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1998). He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation, and his research on fixed income has been published in leading finance journals such as The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Journal of Fixed Income.