Jenny Davis

Background

About Jenny Davis

I am a partner at Baillie Gifford, an Edinburgh-based fund management partnership which produces proprietary research and actively manages institutional and retail portfolios. I am a portfolio manager for the International Alpha fund with a predominantly US institutional client base. We invest in a diversified portfolio of long-only equities focused on long-term growth for >5yrs. I am a director of the board of Baillie Gifford Overseas, and was a director of the board of a local charity, Edinburgh Women’s Aid, until Dec 2022. Prior to my portfolio management role on International Alpha, I was an analyst on Baillie Gifford's two flagship global products, Global Alpha and Long-Term Global Growth.(2011-2016) I began my career as a global industrials and European funds analyst at Neptune Investment Management in London.(2009-2011) I passed CFA Level 1 in January 2011 (first attempt) and the IMC in November 2009. I undertook a part-time postgraduate certificate in Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh (2015-2017), in which I gained a distinction. My undergraduate studies were in Music at Oxford (2005-2008), from which I graduated with first class honours.