Tulio P. Vera
Chief Strategist & Head of Client Relations,
Bladex Asset Management (BAM)
(New York, New York, USA)
Tulio Vera joined Bladex in July 2008. Prior to Bladex, he spent nine years as a Managing Director and Chief Emerging Market Macro and Debt Strategist for Merrill Lynch. In this capacity, he was responsible for: (i) global emerging market debt research and investment strategy; (ii) macroeconomic research for Latin America and Emerging Europe; and (iii) cross-asset class investment strategy across debt/equity/fx for Latin America. He was a member of the Merrill’s Operating Committee for Latin America and the firm’s Global Debt Risk Council.
From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Vera ran global EM fixed income research for ABN-AMRO. From 1994 to 1997, he was in charge of sovereign-debt research and market strategy for Latin America at Bear Stearns. Previously, he was a Financial Officer at the International Finance Corporation – the private-sector arm of the World Bank – and was a senior sovereign analyst at Moody’s.
He received a BA in architecture from the University of Maryland and has a Master's degree (and is ABD) in International Finance and Monetary Economics from New York University.