EMIA Notes - JANUARY 02, 2023

Please welcome our new program director, Maria Tinedo, who will lead the TMT Program and co-lead the Financial Institutions Program with Amanda Gray, Executive Fellow. 

Maria comes to EMIA with over 25 years of experience as a Financial Analyst and Portfolio Manager in Global Emerging Market Equities. Based in New York, she worked at Principal Asset Management, Citigroup Asset Management, Newgate Capital and Deutsche Bank. As an Analyst she covered all sectors in most emerging markets, but more recently was responsible for Financials and Energy sectors and co-managed a large equity EM portfolio. 

EMIA would like to thank Sherin Gobran, outgoing program director for TMT and Financial Institutions Programs, for setting a solid foundation for these two programs.  Sherin will continue to contribute to EMIA’s mission as a research consultant. 

We wish Maria and Sherin much success in their new roles.

In today’s global economy, food packaging is highly essential for protecting and handling food from farm to fork. However, the hundreds of toxic chemicals used in packaging make it a source of chemical contamination of food, leading to health, environmental, and financial risks.

The webinar will cover how the 8,000 known and unknown “non-intentionally added substances” used in packaging migrate into food, the challenges presented by type of packaging, and the disconnect between chemical safety and recycling. The inadequate regulatory environment and the ongoing revision of food contact material regulations in the EU will also be addressed.

Speakers:

Jane Muncke, Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer at the charitable Food Packaging Forum Foundation (FPF)

Nadine Cavusoglu, Director of Agriculture Program (moderator)

How can investors identify countries’ vulnerabilities to infectious diseases and help them become more resistant?

The Global Health Security (GHS) Index is the first comprehensive assessment and benchmark of health security and related capabilities across 195 countries. The GHS Index is a project of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and was developed with Economist Impact. The Index aims to spur measurable changes in national health security and improve international capability to address one of the world’s most omnipresent risks: infectious disease outbreaks that can lead to international epidemics and pandemics.

Many emerging markets countries were especially hard hit by COVID. They remain vulnerable and unprepared for infectious disease outbreaks.

EMIA will host a webinar to help investors understand and use the GHS index. It can help identify specific countries’ vulnerabilities and suggest corrective measures to reduce these vulnerabilities.

The webinar is open to emerging markets financial professionals only.

Speakers:

Jaime Yassif, Vice President, Global Biological Policy & Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Jennifer Nuzzo, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Pandemic Center, Brown University’s School of Public Health

Shreya Mukarji, Manager, Policy & Insights, Economist Impact

Uwe Schillhorn, Director of the Health, Education and Human Rights Program, EMIA (moderator)

The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance seeks relationship managers with at least 10 years of experience in emerging market sales (debt or equity) or relationship management to engage asset managers in our initiatives.

Successful candidates will have a commitment to advancing responsible investing/ESG and a strong client book in their region(s) of focus. The position is remote and candidates may be based anywhere.

Interested candidates should send an email including their resume and/or LinkedIn profile mentioning “Relationship Manager - Asset Management” in the subject line to applicants@eminvestorsalliance.org.

The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance seeks relationship managers with at least 10 years of experience in emerging markets finance to engage stock exchanges in our initiatives.

The ideal candidate will have a commitment to advancing responsible investing/ESG, and a strong understanding of emerging and frontier equity markets, and relationships with stock exchanges. The position is remote and candidates may be based anywhere.

Interested candidates should send an email including their resume and/or LinkedIn profile mentioning “Relationship Manager - Stock Exchanges” in the subject line to applicants@eminvestorsalliance.org. 

The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance seeks volunteers to serve in a range of roles. We welcome interest from those with a range of skilled backgrounds including research and writing, editing, survey design, graphic design, and Drupal web development.

Interested candidates should send an email including your resume and/or Linkedin profile mentioning “Volunteer Opportunities” in the subject to applicants@eminvestorsalliance.org.

The Emerging Markets Investors Alliance (EMIA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to enable institutional investors to use the power of their collective capital and voices to advocate for a more sustainable future. EMIA "Programs" are activities that bring together investors, policy experts, and governments or companies for the purpose of improving ESG best practice adoption. EMIA Programs focus on sovereigns (e.g., Government Debt and Fiscal Governance Program, Sovereign Decarbonization) and on sectors (e.g., Agricultural Program, Extractive Industries, Financials Program and Telecom, Media, and Technology Program).