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Leadership Series: Diana Amoa in conversation with Ijeoma Okoli

THURSDAY 18 JUN| 4:30PM | ZOOM WEBINAR

BWAM presents a series of sessions featuring in-depth conversations with black women leaders who are inspiring change in their relative fields. 

Diana Kiluta Amoa (Portfolio Manager & Executive Director, JP Morgan Asset Management) will be interviewed by Ijeoma Okoli (Executive Director, JP Morgan Chase & Co).

Join this virtual Zoom event to hear Diana's career journey, perspectives on leadership and career advice for women of colour working in asset management. 

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Diana is a senior portfolio manager on the JPM local currency team and is responsible for managing overall rates and FX strategies across pooled funds and segregated accounts. Prior to joining the firm in 2015, Diana was the senior trader on the emerging markets rates desk at UBS AG. Before this, Diana held emerging markets fixed income and fx trading roles at Societe Generale and Standard Chartered Bank. She holds a B.Sc. in finance and banking from the University of Reading and an M.Sc. and M.B.A. from University of Oxford. Diana is also a CFA charterholder.

Ijeoma is a US finance and regulatory lawyer with extensive experience advising global banks and corporate clients in Africa, Asia, Europe and the US. Ijeoma has also served as the lead lawyer in EMEA for JPMorgan’s Corporate Treasury and Chief Investment Office. She also oversaw EMEA-wide legal advice on regulatory initiatives like recovery and resolution (US and UK). She is currently an Executive Director in the compliance advisory function within the Asset Management arm of JPMorgan and the Co-chair of the Black Leadership Forum which advises the business on the recruitment, retention and advancement of Black employees. She was a finalist for Finance In-House Lawyer of the Year at the 2013 Chambers UK Women in Law Awards, In-House Lawyer of the Year Award at 2014 The Lawyer Awards and Lawyer of the Year at the 2017 UK Diversity Legal Awards. Ijeoma holds a B.A. and M.P.A. from New York University and a J.D. from Cornell University.

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