Eric Fine

Eric Fine is a nonresident senior fellow with the MENA Futures Lab at the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Programs. Fine has been deeply involved in emerging markets for more than thirty-five years as a policymaker, economist, and investor. He is the portfolio manager for the VanEck, where he is responsible for active emerging markets bonds.

Prior to VanEck, Fine spent fourteen years at Morgan Stanley, running Europe/Middle East/Africa economics and fixed income strategy. He also founded and managed Morgan Stanley’s emerging markets proprietary trading desk. While at Morgan Stanley, he advised numerous governments on economic policies and debt profiles and rescheduled sovereign debts in countries such as Turkey and Russia. He also helped Egypt reenter global bond markets with its first post-Suez crisis bond issuance.

Prior to Morgan Stanley, Fine worked for the Harvard Institute for International Development in Russia, where he helped build the physical infrastructure for Russia’s first securities clearing system. This system transferred equity ownership to every Russian citizen, the largest wealth transfer in history, and subsequently hosted the country’s SWIFT software.

Fine received an MPA in international trade and finance from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and earned a BA in public policy from Duke University.