Jerome Booth

Head of Research, Ashmore Investment Management

Jerome Booth, Head of Research and a member of the Investment Committee, has won regional awards for both Latin American and Eastern European research. He joined ANZ in 1994 and was Head of research for the Emerging Markets Group, then Capital Markets, and then Head of Markets Research for ANZ Investment Bank with global responsibility for fixed income and foreign exchange research. Prior to joining ANZ he was a Senior Strategic Planning Officer at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington DC. Before that, until 1991, he ran a consultancy business advising on aid and trade related issues for four years, and worked in Her Majesty’s Department of Trade and Industry from 1985-7 with responsibility for multi-lateral development banks. Dr Booth holds three degrees including a D.Phil. in economics from Oxford and was a lecturer in economics at Christ Church, Oxford.