As an equity portfolio manager on the Global Stewards Team, the firm’s long-term sustainable investment strategy platform, Yolanda identifies and manages companies based on both their return potential and exemplary corporate stewardship profiles. She chairs Wellington’s Investment Stewardship Committee and serves on the board of Wellington Management International Ltd. 

Before her current role, Yolanda was a global research analyst specialising in European and Latin American banks and she also managed several research-based portfolios. Prior to joining Wellington in 2006, she was a sell-side equity analyst for JPMorgan Chase following Eastern European and Latin American banks. Before that, she covered Latin American banks at both SG Cowen and Oppenheimer. She began her career with the World Bank.

Yolanda holds a BA from Tulane University and an MS in international affairs from Columbia University. She also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Institute.