Martin Blum
Head of Desk Strategy and Capital Markets Development,
Raiffeisen Bank International
Martin leads RBI’s Desk Strategy which provides Emerging European strategy to the group’s institutional clients as well as heading capital markets development. He is also a member of RBI’s structural FX hedging committee and regularly interacts with regional policymakers. Before joining RBI, Martin founded and co-managed a macro hedge fund, focusing on East and West European sovereign credit and local currency markets (winner of the Best Performing Macro-Discretionary Fund of the year in the 2012 UCITS Hedge Awards). Prior to this he headed UniCredit’s Emerging Market Economic Research and Strategy. He graduated from the London School of Economics in 1996 and has been active in Emerging European markets since then.
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