Deborah Fuhr

Managing Partner & Founder at ETFGI

Speaker

Deborah Fuhr is the managing partner of ETFGI, a leading independent research, event, and consultancy firm in the global ETF and Exchange Traded Products (ETP) industries, which she founded in 2012. She is also the editorial director, producer, and presenter at ETF TV, a show providing monthly insights into the ETF and ETP markets, co-founded in June 2019.

Previously, Ms. Fuhr was the Global Head of ETF Research and Implementation Strategy at BlackRock, Inc. (2008-2011) and a managing director leading the Investment Strategies Group at Morgan Stanley (1997-2008). She began her career as an associate at Greenwich Associates.

Ms. Fuhr has served in various prestigious roles, including as an independent trustee of the Renaissance Capital Greenwich Funds and WEBs ETF Trust and the SYNTAX ETF TRUST. She was on the board of WisdomTree (May 2022 – August 2023) and was made a Fellow of CFA UK in January 2020.

Her numerous accolades include being named among the “100 Most Influential Women in Finance” by Financial News and receiving the ETF.com 2018 lifetime achievement award. She has also contributed to various financial publications and authored the appendix on International ETFs in the CFA Research Foundation book, “The Comprehensive Guide to ETFs.”

Ms. Fuhr is a co-founder and Board member of Women in ETFs Inc and of Women in ETFs Europe LTD and co-president of Women in ETF EMEA, a non-profit started in 2014 where she champions gender diversity and empowerment.

She holds a BS degree from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.