John Pickard

Professional experience

John is Vice Chairman of Nomura Asset Management International. He joined Nomura Asset Management as part of Nomura’s acquisition of Macquarie Asset Management’s US and European public investments business in 2025. In his role, John will drive the Multi-Asset team’s growth initiatives, identify organic and inorganic growth opportunities, and play a key role in the increased collaboration between Nomura Asset Management International and the Nomura Asset Management Global Business Unit (GBU). John is a member of the Nomura Asset Management International Executive Committee. 

Previously, he was Head of Equities & Multi-Asset at Nomura Asset Management International and, before that, at Macquarie Asset Management. John has more than 35 years of global equity portfolio management experience. Prior to joining Macquarie, he was a partner at h2glenfern in London, leading the firm’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practice and supporting the growth of the firm’s capital markets advisory business across Europe. Before that, he was the Chief Investment Officer at Martin Currie Investment Management in Edinburgh, after initially spending over 20 years with UBS Asset Management. There he was responsible for leading the firm’s institutional and wholesale equity platform within multiple markets, first as Head of Asian and Emerging Market Equities in London and Tokyo, and later as European Head of Equities in Zurich.

John earned a Bachelor of Arts in natural sciences from Oriel College, Oxford University.