Vera is the Chairman of 20-20 Investment Association, a non-profit emerging markets global peer group that engages in investment-related dialogue with key stakeholders in developing markets.

For 31 years, Vera worked at Wellington Management Company LLP, where she launched what became a robust suite of emerging markets strategies. She and her team introduced the firm’s first emerging markets equity portfolio, and followed with the launch of dedicated strategies focused on Latin America, China, and emerging markets local opportunities. For over two decades she led Wellington’s Emerging Markets Equity Team and managed global emerging markets equity portfolios. She monitored investment opportunities in more than 30 countries in Latin America, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Vera also served as a member of Wellington’s Executive Committee, which functions as the firm’s internal board of directors. 

Prior to joining Wellington in 1989 as an asset allocation analyst, Vera worked at Brown Brothers Harriman in New York (1987 – 1989), where she assessed international financial markets, policies, and economics. Before business school, she worked on the Eurobond team at C.S. First Boston (1983 – 1985) and taught English and  economics at the University of East Asia in Macau (1982 – 1983).

Vera earned her MBA from Harvard Business School (1987) and her AB in economics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University (1982). She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations and the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations. Vera is an Adjunct Professor at Brandeis International Business School, teaching a course on emerging markets.

Kun Deng is a Portfolio Manager/Analyst responsible for Global, International and Emerging Markets Discounted Asset strategies at Lazard Asset Management since 1997. He was previously a Senior Portfolio Manager/Analyst at Newgate Investment Management and also taught at Beijing University and Hofstra University. Kun is a graduate of Peking University in China and has an MIA from Columbia University. He serves on the Board of Directors of Peking University Education Foundation (USA) as well as the Board of Trustees of Groton School. He previously served as a trustee of Princeton Day School and Princeton Academy of the Sacred Hearts. Financial Times ranked Kun as one of the top global equity managers for the years 2000-2003, and again awarded him first place in the global equity category for years 2001-2004. The Lazard Emerging World Fund, for which he is responsible, was awarded the "Best Fund over 10 Years" in the emerging markets category by Lipper in 2010. 

Kathleen Jacobs was appointed Chief Investment Officer for RWJBarnabas Health in January 2024 where she is responsible for the System’s approximately $9 billion investment programs. Prior to joining RWJBarnabas, Ms. Jacobs spent eight years as Chief Investment Officer of New YorkvUniversity where she led the Investment Office and oversaw all aspects of the University’s $6 billion endowments. In addition, she served on the Investment Committee for the $12 billion retirement plans of NYU and NYU Langone Medical Center. During her tenure, she fully restructured and institutionalized the University endowments, built an award-winning team, and generated strong investment returns significantly exceeding benchmarks.

Before joining NYU, Ms. Jacobs was a Managing Director in the Office of Investments at New York-Presbyterian Hospital where she helped build the Hospital’s first investment office and maintained a leading role in asset allocation and the selection of fund managers across asset classes. Prior to joining New York-Presbyterian Hospital in 2008, Ms. Jacobs was Senior Investor for the Juilliard School’s endowment. Before moving to the non-profit sector, Ms. Jacobs was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, and before that a Vice President at J.P. Morgan, where she researched investment funds and allocated capital for pensions and endowments. She also worked in both Global Fixed Income Research and Venture Capital at J.P. Morgan.

Ms. Jacobs graduated magna cum laude from Bucknell University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a board member of the 20-20 Investment Association, an Institutional Investor Advisory Council member for the Managed Funds Association, and an Advisory Investment Committee member for Eighteen48 Partners. She is the recipient of investment-related accolades including Top 30 Endowment Chief Investment Officers, 40 Under 40 Investment Professionals, and Top 30 Most Influential Women in University Endowments, and a member of the Chief Investment Officer Hall of Fame. She was a finalist for Institutional Investor’s CIO of the Year (2021) and Endowment of the Year (2022).

Louisa is a founder and Group CEO and Chairman of Women Investment Holdings Limited (WIPHOLD). Louisa has held positions at Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank as Manager in the Emerging Markets, Development Bank of Southern Africa (during which time she was seconded to the World Bank in Washington DC), as Business and Entrepreneurial Manager and the Lesotho National Development Corporation as Project Manager. 

Louisa graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from the National University of Lesotho. She also completed the Executive Leadership Program at Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. In 2000, Louisa was selected as one of 40 women from different continents and countries for “The Leading Women Entrepreneur of the World”. In 2006, Louisa was the finalist of the Ernest and Young World Entrepreneur Award for South Africa Chapter. In 2008, Louisa was recognized as one of South Africa’s most influential women in business and government. In May 2009, Louisa was the winner of the Inaugural African Business Leadership Award in Dakar, Senegal by the African Development Bank (AfDB). In January 2010, Louisa received ’The Builders of the African Economy Award’’ in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. In February 2015, she was awarded a Women Leadership Award in Mumbai – India "for Outstanding Women Professionals”, and in March 2015, Innovation Award “ an award centered around individuals who have done exceptional work to uplift and develop underprivileged people in South Africa, especially youth” by Student Sponsorship Programme (SSP). Best Manager of the year awards by European Business Assembly at the Institute of Directors in London March 2016 and Honorary Doctorate Degree from NUL September 2016 . 

Louisa served on several boards including Distell Limited, Life Healthcare Group Holdings Limited (all listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange) and currently serves on Sasol Limited, Ixia Coal and AFGRI Group Holdings.

As Chief Investment Strategist, Geoffrey is responsible for designing and implementing CPP Investments’ long-term investment strategy, a One Fund approach that exploits the new and existing sources of competitive advantage of our unique global organization.

He joined CPP Investments in 2011, at the inception of the former Total Portfolio Management department, and has helped shape its growth and evolution, to define and execute CPP Investments’ Total Portfolio Approach.

Previously, Geoffrey held finance roles with Fannie Mae and Capital One Financial where he managed the global balance sheet. Geoffrey also ran a consulting practice and was Adjunct Professor at American University’s Kogod School of Business in Washington, DC.

He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University.

Geoffrey serves on the Board of Directors of Antares Capital.

Gloria is a Founding Member and Executive Director of WIPHOLD and Chief Executive Officer of Wipcapital. Her professional experience includes positions at Exxon Corporation in the USA, Munich Reinsurance Company of SA, the Premier Group and Standard Corporate and Merchant Bank. She was the Executive Director – Finance, Transnet Limited and was a member of the Transnet Board and its major subsidiaries.

Gloria is chairman of the Solidarity Response Fund, incorporated in March 2020 in response to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s call for national unity at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in South Africa.

She serves on several Boards including Hans Merensky Holdings, Adcorp Holdings and Denel. She is an honorary member of the Actuarial Society of South Africa and is a member of the SAICA Advisory Council.

Gloria obtained a B.Com degree from the University of Transkei and holds an MBA degree from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA.

Her previous non-executive Directorships include Chairman of the Board of the Independent Ports Regulator, Chairman of the Life Office’s Association (LOA), Chairman of the Metropolitan Group, Old Mutual, Nedbank, Sasol Mining, Sasfin, Export Credit Insurance Corporation, Airports Company South Africa, Express Kenya Limited, M-Cell, MTN, the Financial Markets Advisory Board and the JSE.

Craig joined the Future Fund after 13 years working for both the Commonwealth Treasury and Australia’s sovereign debt manager, the Australian Office of Financial Management. Craig has been with the Future Fund since inception in 2006 and was a senior member of the in-house Strategy team from 2007 to 2012.  

In July 2012 Craig took up the new role of Director – Emerging Markets; leading the Future Fund’s efforts in better understanding the complexities of investing in Emerging Markets across all asset classes.  

In 2019 Craig joined the in-house Private Equity team with investment responsibilities cutting across venture, growth and buy-out sectors and with a focus on China and other emerging economies.

From September 2020 Craig is working directly to the Chief Investment Officer, with a focus on strategic portfolio and investment initiatives.

Craig has often represented the Future Fund at high level governmental interactions and continues to represent the organisation and investment forums worldwide.

Craig graduated from the Australian National University with both a Bachelor of Commerce degree and post graduate qualifications in Economics.

Mr. Ursúa is head of the macro sector, investment committee member, and shareholder at Dodge & Cox, where he joined in 2014. He leads the firm’s efforts around macroeconomic research and is part of various teams contributing with investment analyses around fixed income, interest rates, currency markets, sovereign fundamentals, and geopolitical risks.

He received an A.M. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He also received a Law School degree and a B.A. in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, in 2005, both summa cum laude and ranking number one of his classes. At Harvard, he received a Bradley Fellowship, a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, and various Derek Bok Awards for excellence in teaching. His academic research focused on the area of intersection between macroeconomics and finance. In particular, the study of rare disasters and their impact on the economy and asset prices. His work has been published in top academic journals, including the American Economic Journal, the American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, the Annual Review of Economics, and the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

Prior to graduate school, Mr. Ursúa worked as an economist at Mexico’s Central Bank and Finance Ministry. After graduate school, he was a member of the Global Economics and Markets research group at Goldman Sachs in New York. In 2013, Mr. Ursúa won the Tadeusz Rybczynski Memorial Prize granted by the Society of Professional Economists in London. From 2014 to 2023, he served on the Board of the Maya Educational Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports programs dedicated to the educational and professional advancement of Maya people in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico.