Speaker

Yvette Babb, portfolio manager, William Blair

Yvette Babb is a hard and local currency portfolio manager on William Blair’s emerging markets debt team. She’s also a member of the sustainability leadership team for William Blair Investment Management. Before joining William Blair, she was a portfolio manager on NN Investment Partners’ emerging markets debt team, where she focused on frontier market analysis and portfolio management, working with both the hard currency and local currency teams. Prior to joining NNIP in 2018, Babb was chief economist and strategist for sub-Saharan Africa for J.P. Morgan. She also held a similar role at Standard Bank in Johannesburg, South Africa. She’s on the Principles of Responsible Investments’ sovereign advisory committee. She received a bachelor of science in international economics and business studies from Erasmus University of Rotterdam and a master of science in economics from the University of Amsterdam.