Ecaterina Bigos

Head of Fixed Income Product Strategy at BlackRock

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Ecaterina Bigos is Head of Fixed Income Product Strategy for iShares in APAC and leads the APAC Fixed Income iShares initiative. Ecaterina is responsible for driving the adoption of Fixed Income ETFs in the region. She sets the strategy across APAC, drives client engagement on bond ETFs and rationalizes global bond ETF product positioning across client channels. Ecaterina is also a member of BlackRock's Women's Initiative Network Management Committee in Asia.

Ecaterina joined BlackRock in 2012 in the London office as Fixed Income Product Strategist and reallocated to Asia in 2015. Before joining BlackRock, Ecaterina worked at UBS and Credit Suisse as a product specialist, responsible for beta access products such as index and sector swaps, bespoke baskets and ETFs. Dresdner Kleinwort is where she started her career, in the bank's Corporate Solutions Group with focus on Emerging Markets. There she worked on projects ranging from simple flow trades to facilitate clients' medium term financing needs to structured financing solutions.

Ecaterina holds a Master in Finance from Cass Business School and a Bachelor degree from Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest.