Cecily Chen

Cecily Chen, CFA, currently serves as Vice President and Portfolio Risk Manager at PIMCO, a position held since February 2018, with responsibilities including macro and credit strategy, volatility modeling, risk optimization, stress testing, and performance attribution. Prior experience includes a role as Risk Analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co. for a summer in 2017, and a summer position as Global Credit Trading & Syndicate Summer Analyst at CITIC Securities Company Limited in 2016, alongside work as a Quantitative Research Analyst. Cecily holds a Master of Science in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University's Tepper School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Financial Engineering from Renmin University of China, with additional studies at the University of Edinburgh Business School. Early education was completed at Chengdu No.7 High School with a focus on science.