Karina L. Bubeck (Past Speaker)

Karina oversees global sovereign and emerging markets research for Nuveen. She is responsible for managing the firm’s global sovereign, rates/FX, and emerging market corporate analysts. Karina is also a coportfolio manager for the firm’s EM corporate dedicated strategy. Her primary research responsibilities are South American corporate issuers across various sectors including financials, pulp and paper, telecom and media, oil and gas, and utilities, among others. Karina previously covered EMEA corporates as well as Mexico, Central America and Caribbean sovereign and corporate issuers. She has also served as a credit analyst on the domestic private placement team and the private equity team. Prior to joining the firm in 2003, Karina worked at BBVA, S.A., a multinational financial services organization, where she directed the bank’s investor relations efforts in the U.S. She also worked at Salomon Smith Barney in the equity research group. She has been in the investment industry since 1999 and is a regular panelist for emerging market investing events, including Fitch, JP Morgan, and EMTA conferences..Karina graduated with a B.B.A. in International Business from Baruch College and an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She is a member of the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Securities Analysts and holds the CFA designation.