Bart van der Made, CFA, Managing Director, joined the firm in 2013. Bart is a Lead Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Debt team, responsible for managing EMD Hard Currency portfolios. Prior to joining the firm, Bart held various roles at ING Investment Management, most recently since 2009, as lead portfolio manager of emerging markets debt (hard currency). From 2005 onwards, he was a senior portfolio manager and before that was the EMD economist – the role in which he joined in 2000. He began his career in 1997 as econometrician at ING Group in the country risk department, writing emerging market country risk reports and working on quantifying country risk. He earned a Master’s degree in Econometrics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Bart has been awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.