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Karen is an investment manager in the Japanese Equities Team. She is a co-manager of the Japanese Income Growth Strategy. She joined Baillie Gifford in 2012. Karen graduated BSc (Hons) in Economics with Japanese from the University of Birmingham in 2011.
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