Vasiliki Pachatouridi

Vasiliki Pachatouridi, Managing Director, is the Head of iShares Fixed Income Product Strategy EMEA for BlackRock. Her team is responsible for supporting client engagement for both institutional and wealth investors, creating thought leadership on fixed income markets and fixed income ETFs and driving new product innovations.

Ms. Pachatouridi has authored and co-authored several articles on fixed income markets and investing.

She is a frequent contributor to financial news media and appears regularly on Bloomberg TV. Mrs. Pachatouridi also represents the firm in front of clients, regulators and industry bodies, advocating for the need to modernize bond markets.

Ms Pachatouridi's service with the firm dates back to 2007, including her years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Previously, she was a member of the iShares EMEA Investment Strategies & Insights team, where she provided analysis of ETF products as well as education and research on the wider indexing space. At BGI, she started her career within the Transition Management team.

Ms Pachatouridi earned MSc degree, with a first class honours, in Investment Management from Cass Business School in 2007 and a BSc degree in Business Administration from University of Bath in 2006. Ms. Pachatouridi was named as one of Financial News' Rising Stars within asset management in Europe in 2020.