Russell Brownback

Russell Brownback

Managing Director, Head of Global Macro Positioning for Fixed Income

Russell J Brownback, Managing Director, is a portfolio manager and Head of Global Macro Positioning for Fixed Income. He is also a member of the Fundamental Fixed Income Executive Committee. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Brownback was a Senior Partner with R3 Capital Partners. From 1992 to 2008, he was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as a Managing Director and proprietary trader/portfolio manager for the Global Principal Strategies team. Previously, he was the head of the firm's Corporate and Emerging Markets bond trading desks.

 

Mr. Brownback earned a BA degree in economics from Hobart College and an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He has been an adjunct professor for both graduate and undergraduate studies at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Business.