Thomas Christiansen
Head of Emerging Markets Fixed Income
Londres, Reino Unido
English
Thomas has nearly twenty years’ experience in portfolio management specialising in emerging market (EM) debt.
He rejoined UBP in 2025 to take charge of the management of EM fixed income investments after two and a half years at Ashmore as a hard-currency EM debt fund manager, and chair of the Blended Debt investment committee. This followed his first, five-year stint at UBP, where he was head of Sovereign and Frontier debt. Before that he was with Nordea Asset Management, where he led the launch of their hard-currency EM debt strategy. This was preceded by a decade at BlackRock Financial Management, his last post there being EM debt portfolio manager co-managing the sovereign debt portfolios. He was also a founding member of the BlackRock Investment Institute, the firm’s global investment research and knowledge-sharing platform.
Thomas holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from New York University.
