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Omotunde Lawal is the Head of Emerging
                                                                                                                            Markets Corporate Debt Group and the lead
                                          Career                                                                            portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets
                                                                                                                            Corporate Debt strategy, as well as a member
                                                                                                                            of the Barings EM Investment Committee.
                                                                                                                            Prior to her current role, Tunde was the Head
                                                                                                                            of Barings EM Corporate Credit Research,
                                                                                                                            with research  coverage responsibilities for
                                Panellists                                                                                  various sectors such as Real Estate, LATAM
                                                                                                                            Energy, and LATAM Infrastructure. Tunde
                                                                                                                            has worked in the industry since 2000. Prior
                                                                                                                            to joining the firm in 2014, she was a portfo-
                                                                                                                            lio manager at Cosford Capital Management,
                                                                                                                            focusing on high yield and distressed LATAM
                                                                                                                            and CEEMEA corporates. Prior to this, she
                                                                                                                            was at Standard Bank, where she traded and
                                                                                                                            invested in distressed and stressed emerging
                                                                                                                            markets corporates in LATAM and CEEMEA
                                                                                                                            for the Principal Trading Team. Earlier, Tunde
                                                                                                                            worked at Barclays Capital and Deloitte &
                                                                                                                            Touche/Arthur Andersen. Tunde holds a B.Sc.
                                                                                                                            in Accounting & Finance from University of
                                                                                                                            Warwick, is a Fellow of the Chartered Insti-
                                                                                                                            tute of Accountants in England and Wales,
                                                                                                                            and is a member of the CFA Institute.
                                                                                                        Omotunde                                   FINANCE

                                                                                                        Lawal                CFA, Head of Emerging Markets Corporate Debt

                                                                                            Christine  is  a  track  and  field  athlete
                                                                                            specialising in 400 metres, the event for
                                                                                            which she is a former Olympic, World
                                                                                            and Commonwealth champion. She is
                                                                                            a double World Champion and has also
                                                                                            won six World championship  medals
                                                                                            as part of the Great Britain and North-
                                                                                            ern Ireland team, as well as bronze
                                                                                            Olympic medals at the 2008 Beijing
                                                                                            Games and the 2016 Rio Games. Chris-
                                                                                            tine shares the record for medalling in
                                                                                            most successive global championships
                                                                                            - 9 between the 2005 World Champi-
                                                                                            onships in Athletics and the 2016 Sum-
                                                                                            mer Olympics. The first British female
                                                                                            to  win  two  World  Championship  ti-
                                                                                            tles, and the first British female to win
                                                                                            three global titles. The second British
                                                                                            track and field athlete to win medals
                                                                                            at three successive Olympic Games.

                                                                                              SPORTS                                     Christine

                                                                                              Olympian Athlete Champion        Ohuruogu MBE
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