Deputy Portfolio Manager, Emerging Markets Equity
VanEck

Ola El-Shawarby is a Portfolio Manager and Head of VanEck’s active Emerging Markets Equity strategy. A senior investment professional at VanEck since 2017, she has over 20 years of experience in emerging markets equity investing.

Prior to joining VanEck, she was a Director and Senior Investment Analyst at Caravel Management LLC, where she identified and evaluated investment opportunities and conducted macroeconomic and political risk analysis across the Middle East, North Africa, and Emerging Europe. She was previously a Private Equity Summer Fellow at KAUST Investment Management Company, helping shape the private equity investment strategy for the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Endowment. Earlier in her career, she held several roles at EFG-Hermes Asset Management, including Vice President and Portfolio Manager.

Ola holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a CFA charterholder and a member of CFA Society Egypt and CFA Society New York. She also earned a BA (summa cum laude) in Business Administration (Finance) from The American University in Cairo, and a BS in Political Science (minor in Economics) from Cairo University.