Christian Frei is a Portfolio Manager/Analyst on the Lazard Alternative Emerging Markets investment team and a member of the Alternative Emerging Markets Investment Committee. He is responsible for identifying Emerging Market and Frontier market specialist managers employing both alternative and traditional investment strategies to capture market inefficiencies and uncorrelated return streams across a range of asset classes and strategies. He began working in financial services in 1984 at Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in London in debt restructuring. From 1987 to 1989, Christian moved to JP Morgan Investment Management (JPMIM) in London as a buy-side research analyst. In 1989, he became the Head of JPMIM’s Singapore office, where he was responsible for managing Asia ex-Japan portfolios. In 1994, he became the deputy Managing Director JP Morgan’s Indian mutual fund joint venture, ICICI Asset Management. In 1996, Christian helped establish JP Morgan’s asset management joint venture in Korea, Samsung JP Morgan Investment Trust Management. He relocated to Seoul as Chief Investment Office and JP Morgan board member. In late 1997, Christian returned to New York as a portfolio manager in JPMIM’s Global Emerging Markets Group until late 1998 when he became Chief Investment Officer of JPMIM’s Hedge Fund Group.  He joined Lazard Asset Management in 2001 as a co-founder of Lazard’s multi-manager hedge fund investment business. Christian is a BSc (Eng) in Biochemical Engineering from University College, London.