Oliver S. Kratz, Ph.D., is head of the Global Thematic Equity Team in New York. He joined the firm in 1996, and the fund in 2003, having served as portfolio manager for European Equity Fund and Global Emerging Markets.

Prior to joining the firm, he had two years of experience at Merrill Lynch, Brown Brothers Harriman and McKinsey & Co. He authored Frontier Emerging Markets Securities Price Behavior and Valuation (Kluwers Academic Publishers, 1999).

Kratz received a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and Karlova Universidad in Prague, and MALD and Ph.D. degrees from The Fletcher School.