Mary is Global Head Fixed Income in the Global Investment Center of the Private Bank of ABN AMRO and a voting member of the private bank’s Global Investment Committee. Mary is Chairman of the Rente Gilde, the society of Dutch financial professionals working in fixed income markets and is Assistant Professor in the section Finance on Erasmus School of Economics where she is responsible for the educational and research program on fixed income. Mary has spent her entire professional career in fixed income. Starting in 1993 upon the completion of her MSc in Economics at the London School of Economics, she worked the first thirteen years in the dealing rooms of Paribas, DrKW and Lehman Brothers in London as Euro bond strategist and Debt Capital Markets professional. In 2006 she took time out to write her PhD thesis on the integration of European corporate bond markets. She obtained her doctorate in 2011 at Tilburg University, following which she resumed her career in the Netherlands in asset management. She first worked for ING Investment Management (now NN IP) and then for APG Asset Management, both as a Senior Strategist for the fixed income portfolios of respectively the largest life insurer (Nationale Nederlanden) and largest pension fund (ABP) in the Netherlands. She joined ABN AMRO in September 2015, where she leads a team of fixed income specialists globally which is responsible for delivering high performing portfolios and investment recommendations to the private clients of ABN AMRO. Part of this Global team are fixed income specialists of Bank Neuflize in France and Bethmann Bank in Germany. ABN AMRO’s private bank has approximately 190 billion euro assets under management, of which 40% is invested in fixed income.