Alifia Doriwala is a Partner and Co-Chief Investment Officer at RockCreek focused on OCIO solutions. As a member of the Investment Committee, she is involved in portfolio management, asset allocation and investment decisions across alternative and traditional asset classes. An active investor, she sources directs, and manages relationships with top-quartile public and private investments on behalf of endowments, foundations, and pension funds. Ms. Doriwala works closely with the Investment Committee and Boards of Institutions in managing their investment portfolios and with many as their Outsourced Chief Investment Officer. Building on a life-long interest in advancing mission-oriented work, Ms. Doriwala integrates impact opportunities in certain portfolios.
Prior to joining RockCreek, Ms. Doriwala was an Equity Arbitrage Trader at Wolverine Trading, L.P., where she was responsible for sourcing, analyzing and modeling equity linked trades together with equity options. Ms. Doriwala started her career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Merrill Lynch and member of the Financial Sponsor Group assessing the suitability of potential targets for private equity portfolio companies.
Ms. Doriwala graduated from Georgetown University magna cum laude with a B.A. in Economics and English and holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She is a board member of the Georgetown University Global Business Initiative Advisory Board and a former Trustee and Chair of the Investment Committee at The Langley School. She is also a board member for the Teach for America-DC Region, board member and investment committee member of Maret School and WETA as well as a member of the Global Advisory Council for Beyond the Billion. She supports various non-profit organizations focused on education and women’s initiatives. Ms. Doriwala contributed to the RockCreek IFC research study entitled “Moving Toward Gender Balance in Private Equity.”
