Rick M. Rieder, Managing Director, is BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, Head of Fundamental Fixed Income business, and Head of Global Allocation Investment Team. He also serves as a member of BlackRock’s Executive Sub-Committee on Investments, a member of BlackRock’s Global Operating Committee, and Chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council, and a member of the BlackRock Foundation Investment Committee.

Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Rieder was president and CEO of R3 Capital Partners. He served as vice chair and member of the Borrowing Committee for the US Treasury and is currently a member of the Federal Reserve’s Investment Advisory Committee. From 1987 to 2008, Rieder was with Lehman Brothers, most recently as head of the firm’s Global Principal Strategies team. He was also global head of the firm’s credit businesses, chairman of the Corporate Bond and Loan Capital Commitment Committee, and a member of the Board of Trustees for the corporate pension fund. Before joining Lehman Brothers, Rieder was a credit analyst at SunTrust Banks in Atlanta.

Rieder serves on the Alphabet/Google Investment Advisory Committee and the UBS Research Advisory Board. He was awarded the Global Unconstrained Fixed Income Manager of the Year for 2015 by Institutional Investor, was nominated for Fixed Income Manager of the Year by Institutional Investor for 2014, and was inducted into the Fixed Income Analysts Society Fixed Income Hall of Fame in 2013.

Rieder earned a BBA in Finance from Emory in 1983 and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1987. In addition to belonging to the Emory University Board of Trustees, he is a member of the Goizueta Business School Board and is founder and chairman of the business school’s BBA investment fund and community financial literacy program.