One of the City of London’s leading women, Ghadir was appointed Global Head of Equities in 2016. Prior to this, Ghadir was Head of the EMEA & Global Frontier Markets Equity Team and lead manager on the Barings Eastern European Fund and Baring MENA Fund. Having joined Barings as part of the Global Emerging Equity Team in 1997, Ghadir was appointed a Director in 2001.

Prior to joining our Emerging Equity Team, Ghadir worked at BZW Asset Management, where she was an investment analyst focusing on the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America regions.

Ghadir has a BSc and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Durham University and is fluent in Arabic.