Sergio Trigo Paz

Sergio Trigo Paz, Managing Director, is the Head of Emerging Markets Portfolio Management for BlackRock's Global Fixed Income group.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2012, he was CIO of Emerging Market Fixed Income at BNP Paribas Investment Partners where he also managed a special situations and event driven EM hedge fund and was responsible for total and absolute return EM strategies.

During his career, Mr. Trigo Paz has extensive experience in emerging markets debt as a proprietary trader, market maker and exotic/distressed debt trader and has also worked at Banca Intesa Sub, ANZ, LTCB and Societe Generale. He has developed an innovative thematic investment process combining a global factors approach with on-the-ground due diligence and special situations scenario analysis. His unique investment process is now being applied to emerging market funds, differentiating it from more traditional top-down/bottom-up approaches.

Mr. Trigo Paz graduated with an MSc in Economics, an MSc in Finance and an MPhil in Management from Paris Sorbonne University in 1993.