Rick Rieder, Senior Managing Director, is BlackRock's Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, Head of the Fundamental Fixed Income business and Head of the Global Allocation Investment Team.

Responsible for managing roughly $2.4 trillion in assets, Mr. Rieder is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee (GEC) and its GEC Investment Sub-Committee. He also is Chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council.

Mr. Rieder currently serves on the Alphabet/Google Investment Advisory Committee and the UBS Research Advisory Board. He was nominated for Outstanding Portfolio Manager by Morningstar in 2021, was awarded the Global Unconstrained Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 2015 by Institutional Investor, was nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014 and was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013.

Mr. Rieder has served as Vice Chairman and member of the Borrowing Committee for the U.S. Treasury and member of the Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee on Financial Markets.

Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Rieder was President and Chief Executive Officer of R3 Capital Partners. From 1987 to 2008, he was with Lehman Brothers where he was head of the firm's Global Principal Strategies team, a global proprietary investment platform. He was also global head of the firm's credit businesses, Chairman of the Corporate Bond and Loan Capital Commitment Committee and a member of the Board of Trustees for the corporate pension fund. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Rieder was a credit analyst at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta.

Mr. Rieder earned a BBA degree in Finance from Emory University in 1983 and an MBA degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. He is a member of the board of Emory University, Emory's Goizueta Business School, and the University's Finance Committee, and is the Vice Chairman of the Investment Committee. Mr. Rieder is founder and chairman of the Goizueta Business School's BBA investment fund and community financial literacy outreach program, Graduation Generation. Mr. Rieder serves as Chairman and President of the Board of Education for North Star Academy's fourteen Charter Schools in Newark, NJ. He is on the Board of the BlackRock Foundation, the Board of Advisors for the Hospital for Special Surgery, and the Board of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Newark and Essex County. Mr. Rieder formerly served on the Board and National Leadership Council of the Communities in Schools Educational Foundation in Atlanta, and Trustee for the U.S. Olympic Foundation. Mr. Rieder was honored at the Choose Success Awards ceremony in Atlanta in 2015 for his dedication to public education in Atlanta through CIS and Graduation Generation.

Russell Brownback, Managing Director, is Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income. Mr. Brownback is the lead investor for Core and Core Plus, and Inflation Linked Strategies. In addition, he is a co-lead manager of the Strategic Income Opportunities Fund and flexible global aggregate mandates, including BlackRock Strategic Global Bond Fund.

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 Bond trading desk and an industrial sector bond trader. During his tenure, he also traded emerging markets and cross over sovereign bonds.

Mr. Brownback earned a BA degree in economics from Hobart College in 1987 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.

Chi Chen, Managing Director, is a Portfolio Manager in BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Investment Group, focusing on US multi-sector fixed income mandates and global government bond mandates. She is Co-Manager of BlackRock's Total Return Fund and ETF, Core Bond Fund, US Dollar Bond Fund, and Global Government Bond Fund.

Ms. Chen focuses on macro investment strategies and specializes in interest rates investment. She leads research efforts for US rates in the Global Fixed Income platform. In addition, she is actively involved in the platform’s top-down process including regime identification, asset allocation, macro positioning, and portfolio construction. Previously, she was a macro researcher on the Economics team at BlackRock.

Ms. Chen joined BlackRock as an analyst in the Global Fixed Income Investment Group. She earned a BA degree, magna cum laude, in Economics and Statistics from Mount Holyoke College.

Siddharth Mehta, Director, is Head of Customized Core and Core Plus Business within the Global Fixed Income (GFI) group at BlackRock. He is also a portfolio manager on the Short Duration, Total Return, and Core Bond Portfolios. Additionally, he serves as a voting member on a number of private capital investment committees, such as BlackRock’s Commercial Mortgage Loan Investment Committee, and the Securitized Assets Investment Committee.

Prior to taking on his current responsibilities, Mr. Mehta was a portfolio manager on BlackRock's agency mortgage and securitized products portfolios. Mr. Mehta joined the Portfolio Management Group in 2008. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Mehta was a member of BlackRock's Risk and Quantitative Analytics Group, where he was responsible for supporting the mortgage team. Mr. Mehta began his investment career with BlackRock as an analyst in the Portfolio Analytics Group. Mr. Mehta is a member of the Mental Health Ambassador program, serving as a resource to colleagues on issues around mental health.

Mr. Mehta earned a BS degree, magna cum laude, in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 2005.

Sam Summers, Director, is a portfolio manager in the Global Fixed Income (GFI) group at BlackRock focusing on US multi-sector fixed income and global government bond mandates. He is a portfolio manager for Total Return, Core Bond, Short Duration, and Global Government Portfolios. Mr. Summers focuses on macro directional and relative value investment strategies in interest rates and FX as well as macro positioning and asset allocation in multi-sector and global government bond portfolios.

Mr. Summers joined Blackrock as an analyst after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA degree in economics.