Patricia Perez-Coutts is a CFA Senior Portfolio Manager. Currently, a private impact investor and a philanthropist She was most recently associated with Westwood Holdings Group, where she led its Emerging Markets and Global strategies. Prior to that, Ms. Perez-Coutts managed emerging markets portfolios for eleven years for AGF Investments Inc. Prior to 2001, she served as Vice President and Portfolio Manager for another Canadian investment management firm, Vice President of Research for a Canadian private merchant bank and Economist for Peru’s Institute of Foreign Trade. Ms. Perez-Coutts earned an Honours BA in Economics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú and a BA in Mathematics for Commerce from York University. She is a member of the CFA Institute and the Toronto Society of Financial Analysis.