Divya Manek, Managing Director, is Head of Index Fixed Income Portfolio Management for EMEA.

Managing a complex book of business spanning over 300 portfolios across ETFs, Index Mutual Funds and Segregated mandates. Divya was previously Head of Investment Grade Credit and Emerging Market Debt for Indexed Fixed Income in EMEA.

Before joining BlackRock, Divya spent the first 12 years of her career as a fundamental active credit investor. She was previously at Santander Asset Management in charge of European Fixed Income (U.K.). Prior to that she spent seven years at Schroders working on flagship EUR/GBP credit mutual funds and managing segregated mandates.

Divya obtained a first-class engineering degree from the University of Mumbai in 2006, graduated top of her class at Cass Business School in 2007 and is a CFA Charterholder.

Divya is passionate about social mobility. In her spare time, she works with the organisation UpReach to mentor undergraduates from less-advantaged backgrounds to help them access and sustain top graduate jobs.