Maarten-Jan Bakkum

Strategist, Emerging Markets Equity at ING Investment Management, Maarten-Jan is responsible for the top-down investment process for emerging market equities, including the assessment of the emerging market equity asset class and the country allocation within emerging markets. Developer of a propriety top-down investment model to categorise emerging equity markets, he created an analytical tool used within ING IM to combine views about the global market environment with individual emerging markets.

Highly regarded as an expert in emerging markets, prior to coming to ING IM in 2008, he worked at ABN AMRO where he was an emerging markets strategist responsible for the asset class and country allocation recommendations.

Prior to that, he was a member of their sell-side research team as an economist focused on Eastern Europe and Latin America.

A native of the Netherlands, Maarten-Jan is fluent in English, Spanish and Dutch. He has appeared numerous times on CNBC Europe, Bloomberg TV Spain, TV8 Sweden and TV18 India, and while at ABN AMRO, he was the company’s spokesman for emerging market issues. He frequently presents ING IM’s views on emerging markets to key institutional clients and speaks in front of large audiences on the topic around the world.

In addition to a degree in Latin American Studies from Leiden University, he completed a postgraduate degree in International Economic Relations from the University of Amsterdam in 1995.