John Normand

Background

About John Normand

John Normand is Head of Investment Strategy for AustralianSuper, the country’s largest superannuation fund and one of the world's largest private pension funds. He focuses on asset allocation across public and private markets, and is based in London. Before joining the Fund, he spent 24 years at J.P. Morgan, where he was Head of Research for Foreign Exchange, International Bonds, Commodities, and Cross-Asset Strategy. He was ranked in Institutional Investor surveys for over a decade, and was named First Team eleven times across three categories (Macro Strategy, Cross-Asset Strategy, Currencies). Prior to J.P. Morgan, he worked in global bond strategy at UBS Asset Management and in Latin American economics research at the World Bank. He holds degrees from Georgetown (BA in Economics), Princeton (MPA in Economics & Public Policy), and London School of Economics (MSc in Philosophy & Public Policy). He is also a CFA charterholder, and has completed additional CFA certifications in Climate & Investing and in Private Markets & Alternative Investments. His 2022 LSE dissertation applied moral philosophy to ESG, in order to address some of the controversies around sustainable investing. He is a Trustee for the Galileo Foundation, which promotes inter-faith philanthropy, and is on the Board of Advisors for Georgetown University’s Baratta Center for Global Business.