Ammar James

Ammar James currently serves as Deputy Portfolio Manager and Equity Research Analyst at VanEck, focusing on investment analysis in natural resource equities since August 2019. Prior to this role, Ammar worked at Cambridge Associates from November 2011 to June 2019, initially as an Associate Investment Director in Real Assets, where responsibilities included managing research on private equity, hedge funds, and traditional long-only investment strategies across various sectors such as real estate, agriculture, and energy. Ammar began career at Cambridge Associates as an Investment Operations Analyst, processing qualitative and quantitative data for different investment products. Educationally, Ammar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Stony Brook University, completed in 2011.