Ms Punita Kumar-Sinha

KANDO id: 881

Bio

Punita Kumar-Sinha is the Portfolio Manager and Chief Investment Officer for both the India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund, and a Senior Managing Director of The Blackstone Group. The India Fund has been under Ms Kumar-Sinha’s supervision since July 31, 1997 and she started managing The Asia Tigers Fund on June 30, 1999. She has over seventeen years’ experience in fund management in international and emerging markets. Prior to joining Blackstone, Ms Kumar-Sinha was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc, and CIBC World Markets, where she was also the Fund Manager for the India Fund and The Asia Tigers Fund. Prior to that she was the Portfolio Manager on the emerging markets team at Batterymarch, which she joined after spending approximately four years at Standish Ayer and Wood. At Standish Ayer she developed country allocation models and strategies as part of the international equity management team as well as researched investments in Southeast Asia and other international markets. While at graduate school, Ms Kumar-Sinha interned at JP Morgan Investment Management and at the IFC's emerging markets index group. She also spent a year with the Latin American Department of the World Bank. Ms Kumar-Sinha is a member of the CFA Institute, the Boston Security Analysts Society and the Council on Foreign Relations. PhD and a Masters in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. She received her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. She has an MBA and is also a CFA charterholder.

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