About the speaker

Investment Manager
Julia has been a member of the International Growth Portfolio Construction Group since 2017. She joined Baillie Gifford in 2008 and became a partner in 2022. She previously worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising firms in Denmark, Russia and Hungary. Julia obtained a BSc in 1999, an MSc in 2001 and a PhD in 2005 in Economics from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. She is fluent in Russian and Danish.
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