Ram Bala Chandran
Portfolio Manager
Vice President
New York
Biography
9
Years with Neuberger Berman
Ram Bala Chandran, Vice President, joined the firm in 2013. Ram is a Portfolio Manager on the Emerging Markets Debt team responsible for FX and rates management, covering Latin America. Additionally Ram is also responsible for making macro-economic forecasts for Latin America and providing country views pertaining to Latin America to the sovereign team. Prior to joining Neuberger Berman, Ram held a similar role at ING Investment Management and before that he worked at Citigroup as an emerging market trading strategist and as Latin American FX and local markets strategist. Ram holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and earned a Master’s of Science in Computation for Design and Optimization from the Massachusetts, Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge. While studying for his Master’s Ram also worked as a graduate research assistant.
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