Giulia Pellegrini

Ms Pellegrini is Deputy CIO for Emerging Markets Debt at AllianzGI, where she focuses on EM sovereign debt strategies and ESG investing. Prior to joining AllianzGI in 2020, she was Head of Sustainable EM Fixed Income Investing at BlackRock since 2015. Ms Pellegrini was previously Chief Economist for Sub-Saharan Africa in J.P.Morgan’s Emerging Market Research team in London and in Johannesburg and an Economist at the World bank in the Africa Finance and Private Sector Development Department in Washington D.C. Ms Pellegrini started her career as an Economist in the Policy & Strategy Division of the Debt Management Office of the Federal republic of Nigeria in Abuja. Ms Pellegrini holds master degrees in Development Economics and in Econometrics from the University of Oxford, St Antony’s College and from Birkbeck College as well as a BSc in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London.