Stephanie Lee

Stephanie Lee, Managing Director, is the co-lead of the Systematic Equities Macro group within BlackRock’s Systematic investment team. She is responsible for leading the research effort in macroeconomic insights and portfolio management for macro models and the equity futures platform. She also contributes to emerging market security selection research, focusing on applications of primary unstructured data. Prior to joining the systematic equities team in 2015, she conducted macroeconomic and equities research within the Blackrock Global Market Strategies group.

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2010, Ms. Lee held a research role at Axiom Investment Advisors, a model-driven currencies fund, and co-founded Babel Research, a technology firm that collected internet-based text data to inform quantitative investment strategies. During her academic career she published in various Computer Science journals including the Journal of the ACM. Ms. Lee graduated cum laude from Harvard University, with a BA in Applied Mathematics and Economics, and from University of Oxford, with an MSc in Mathematics and Computer Science Theory where she wrote her dissertation on the computational complexity of database queries.