Amit Deshpande

Head of Quantitative Research in the Fixed Income Division T.Rowe Price

Amit Deshpande is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. He is the head of Quantitative Research in the Fixed Income Division and a member of the Fixed Income Steering Committee. He also oversees management of the Fixed Income Portfolio Investment Analytics team. Prior to joining T. Rowe Price in 2017, Amit was head of Investment Risk for Charles Schwab Investment Management, where he was responsible for risk management across all asset classes. Before that, he spent 12 years in various roles at AllianceBernstein, the most recent of which included head of Fixed Income Investment Risk and head of Quantitative Portfolio Strategies and Fixed Income Quantitative Research and included assignments in New York and Tokyo.

Prior to AllianceBernstein, Amit was a portfolio analyst at Allied Capital Asset Management and a trader at Daewoo Corporation. Amit earned a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Pune, India; an M.S. in finance from Syracuse University; and an M.B.A. from S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, India. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst and Financial Risk Manager designations.