Gina Sanchez

Gina Sanchez is the Chief Executive Officer of Chantico Global, an institutional asset allocation consultant, which serves many of the world’s largest pension funds and endowments. In 2013, Chantico Global was spun out of Roubini Global Economics, where Ms. Sanchez was the Director of Equity and Asset Allocation. Previously, Ms. Sanchez served as Managing Director of Public Investments at the California Endowment, a $3 billion Los Angeles-based foundation, and as Director of Public Investments at the Ford Foundation, a $10 billion New York-based foundation. In both roles, she was responsible for making asset allocation and manager selection recommendations for all external public managers, including both total return and absolute return strategies. Before this, Ms. Sanchez spent over a decade in asset management and banking. She was a Portfolio Manager and investment strategist for eight years at American Century Investment Management in Mountain View, California, where she ran over $6.5 billion in assets under management. She began her career at JPMorgan in New York as a Research Analyst covering Emerging Markets. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University and a Master’s degree in International Policy Studies from Stanford University and was the recipient of Institutional Investor’s 2009 Foundations and Endowments Rising Stars Award.