
Virgil Esguerra is the interim director for the Enhanced Labeled Bonds Campaign at the Emerging Markets Investors Alliance.
Virgil brings two decades of experience in emerging markets and fixed income. He held sell-side research roles at HSBC in New York and Hong Kong, where he covered LatAm and Asian economies across FX and local rates markets. He later served as global EM strategist at Allianz Global Investors in Singapore, expanding his coverage to include sovereign credit and frontier markets. His experience also include summer associate roles at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and the Philippine central bank. Most recently, Virgil was a member of the Product Management team at Western Asset in Pasadena, California, where he supported the firm’s core strategies. Virgil holds a bachelor’s degree in International Economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and an MBA from IE Business School in Madrid.