Vera M. Trojan, CFA
Wellington


Senior Vice President
Partner
Equity Portfolio Manager

Wellington Management Company, LLP

Vera oversees Wellington Management investment efforts in emerging equity markets and is a Portfolio Manager of Emerging Market Equity portfolios. She monitors investment opportunities in more than 30 countries in Latin America, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Vera is also a member of the firm's Global Equity Strategy Group, which develops country and industry investment strategy based on evaluation disciplines, economics, earnings forecasts, and market liquidity conditions.

Prior to joining the firm 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 placed International bonds at C.S. First Boston (1983 - 1985) and taught economics at the University of East Asia in Macau (1982 - 1983).

Education:

Vera earned her MBA from Harvard Business School (1987) and her AB in Economics 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. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Russell 20:20.

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