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Dori Levanoni is a senior member of First Quadrant’s Investments team. In his more than two decades with First Quadrant, Dori has been involved in nearly every aspect of the firm’s investment process, contributing to research, risk measurement, risk allocation, portfolio optimization, trading, and portfolio management. Dori has played an integral role as portfolio manager for a number of strategies across the firm’s global macro and global equity platforms, and has also contributed his insights to various research projects, journals, publications and speaking engagements. Dori began his career at First Quadrant in 1991, spending a brief period in the mid-1990s researching in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at Washington University in St. Louis, before returning to the firm for the remainder of his tenure.

Jeppe Ladekarl is a co-Chief Investment Officer and Partner of First Quadrant. Prior to joining the firm in 2009, he was the Principal Portfolio Manager for the currency and GTAA portfolios managed by the World Bank Pension and Endowments Department. He also managed the team that allocates funds to external GTAA and active currency managers, and was responsible for the internally managed global macro strategy. Mr. Ladekarl also worked in the World Bank's Financial Sector Operations and Policy group conducting financial sector policy research and providing advice to emerging market governments on financial sector issues. Before joining the World Bank, Mr. Ladekarl was a Special Advisor at the Danish Central Bank holding various positions in the Monetary Policy and Capital Markets Departments. Mr. Ladekarl has published on various debt management, ALM, mortgage bonds, currency, emerging markets and international portfolio investment topics. He holds a MSc in economics from the University of Copenhagen.