Yvette Babb

Yvette Babb is a hard and local currency portfolio manager on the emerging markets debt (EMD) team at William Blair Investment Management. She is also a member of Investment Management’s sustainability leadership team. Before joining William Blair in 2020, Yvette was a portfolio manager on NN Investment Partners’ EMD team, where she focused on frontier market analysis and portfolio management, working with both the hard currency and local currency teams. Before joining NNIP in 2018, Yvette was chief economist and strategist for sub-Saharan Africa for J.P. Morgan. She also held a similar role at Standard Bank in Johannesburg, South Africa. Yvette serves on the PRI’s Sovereign Advisory Committee (SDAC). She received a B.Sc. in international economics and business studies from Erasmus University of Rotterdam and an M.Sc. in economics from the University of Amsterdam.