LEADERSHIP

Dr Recai Günesdogdu

Head of Portfolio Management
Board Member of NAM EU
Nomura Asset Management Europe KVG mbH

Professional experience

Dr Recai Günesdogdu has been a Board Member and Head of Portfolio Management at Nomura Asset Management Europe KVG mbH since May 2024.

He joined Nomura Asset Management in 2016 in charge of managing the Emerging Market Local Currency Debt Fund as a member of the Global Emerging Market Bond Team. He successively took over as the lead portfolio manager of the Emerging Market Local Currency Debt Fund (January 2020) and Asian Bond Fund (October 2020) and the management of the Emerging Market Debt Team in October 2020 and, additionally, acted as Head of Investments at NAM EU from December 2021.

From 2008 until 2016 he served as Head of Fixed Income and Structured Products Sales/Trading (non-resident institutional investors) at IS Investment, the investment banking arm of IS Bank in Istanbul. Previously, Dr Günesdogdu was responsible for investments at Aurelius Capital Management (Vienna), Director of Fixed Income Portfolio Strategies and European Structured Product Research at Credit Suisse (London) and Emerging Markets Strategist at Chase Securities (London, New York).

Dr Günesdogdu is a graduate of the Turkish Naval Academy and earned his Master of Philosophy and Doctorate in Financial Economics from the City University of New York.