Pradeep Kumar, PhD, CFA

Pradeep Kumar, PhD, CFA, is a Principal and Portfolio Manager for PGIM Fixed Income's Emerging Markets Debt Team. Mr. Kumar is responsible for developing EM local markets strategy. Prior to joining the Firm in 2019, Mr. Kumar was a Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of Emerging Markets at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) in Toronto. At OTPP he managed local market portfolios across emerging markets, which included a GBIEM index portfolio and an Absolute Return portfolio. Prior to OTPP, Mr. Kumar spent 13 years as a Portfolio Manager in the hedge fund industry. From 2005 through 2017 he was employed at several firms including Balyasny Asset Management, Woodbine Capital Advisors and Drake Management. During his time working in the hedge fund industry, he managed a fundamentally driven, discretionally global, macro portfolio with a focus on emerging markets. Prior to his experience in investment management, Mr. Kumar was a director in the emerging markets fixed income quantitative group at Citigroup. He joined Citigroup in 1997 as a research analyst in emerging markets where he worked on currency and interest rates models and developed quantitative trading strategies. He received a PhD in Economics from University of Alabama and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.