Michel Aubenas

Michel Aubenas

Head of Emerging Market Sovereign Debt

Michel Aubenas, CFA, Managing Director, is Head of Emerging Market Sovereign Debt for the Emerging Markets Debt team within BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group. He has been the Lead Portfolio Manager for the Global EM Sovereign Debt portfolios for more than a decade, using a flexible investment process to deploy capital across the capital structure and in different macro environments. Prior to joining BlackRock in June 2012, Mr. Aubenas was a senior EM Debt Portfolio Manager at Fischer Francis Trees and Watts , a BNP Paribas Investment Partner, where he was lead portfolio manager for sovereign debt strategies and shared regional coverage of EMEA and Frontier markets. Previously, Mr. Aubenas held several positions as an EM Debt Portfolio Manager, where he gained a cross-assets investment expertise in external debt (sovereign, quasi-sovereign and corporate), local rates and currencies. Mr. Aubenas is a CFA charter holder, and graduated in 1999 from Dauphine University in Paris (where he earned a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance in 1999, a MSc in Economics in 1998 and a BSc in Applied Mathematics in 1998).