Edmund Bellord is a co-lead portfolio manager of the Emerging Markets Equity strategy and an analyst of portfolio risk. He joined the firm in 2019 and has over 30 years of industry experience. Bellord previously served as a managing director of asset allocation research at Quantitative Management Associates, an asset allocation strategist at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co., and a global investment strategist at Mellon Capital Management. He holds an MA in Economics from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from the Walter A. Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

Lee Gao is a co-lead portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Equity strategy and an analyst of China and Emerging Markets. He joined Harding Loevner in 2020 and has 20 years of industry experience. Gao previously was a portfolio manager for Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Imprint Emerging Markets strategy. He also served as a director and co-founder of Greyson Capital Management and as an analyst at Joho Capital and JP Morgan. He graduated from Harvard University with an AB in Economics.

Babatunde (Tunde) Ojo is a co-lead portfolio manager for the Emerging Markets Equity and Frontier Emerging Markets Equity strategies. He also serves as an analyst of Financials companies and of EM and Frontier EM businesses. Ojo is a partner of the firm and has over 20 years of experience. Prior to joining Harding Loevner in 2012, Tunde was a global investment analyst intern at American Century Investments. He also served as head of equity investment and a portfolio manager at Asset & Resource Management Company in Nigeria. His early experience includes working as an associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers and a banking officer at Intercontinental Bank in Nigeria. Ojo holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and MSc in Food Chain Management from Imperial College, University of London. He graduated from the University of Lagos with a BS in Biochemistry. Ojo is also a CFA® charterholder.