Meet our leading financial experts (2024)

Joseph H. Davis, Ph.D., is Vanguard’s global chief economist and global head of the Investment Strategy Group. He leads teams that are responsible for Vanguard’s research and thought leadership agendas as well as the development and oversight of the firm’s investment methodologies and models. His areas of expertise are economics, asset allocation, portfolio management, and investment strategies.

Joe chairs the firm’s Strategic Asset Allocation Committee, which governs multi-asset-class investment solutions, and he is a member of the senior portfolio management team of Vanguard Fixed Income Group.

The Investment Strategy Group is responsible for the firm’s portfolio construction and investment advice methodologies and for conducting research on economies and markets, investment strategies and asset classes, and investor behavior and retirement issues. The group also oversees Vanguard’s investment models, including the Vanguard Capital Markets Model, a proprietary forecasting tool that underpins the firm’s economic and capital markets outlook.

Joe is a frequent keynote speaker, has published white papers in leading academic and practitioner journals, and currently serves on the editorial boards of The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Journal of Fixed Income.

Joe earned his B.A. from Saint Joseph’s University, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at Duke University, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Roger Aliaga-Díaz, Ph.D., is Vanguard’s global head of portfolio construction and chief economist for the Americas. His areas of expertise are economics, macroeconomic forecasting, and portfolio construction.

Roger and his global research team develop multi-asset-class strategies and conduct quantitative research on asset allocation and investment solutions. With his team, he has built two proprietary portfolio construction models, the Vanguard Life-Cycle Investing Model and the Vanguard Asset Allocation Model, that underpin the firm’s global investment advice methodology.

Roger is also vice chair of the firm’s Strategic Asset Allocation Committee and chair of its Time-Varying Asset Allocation Subcommittee, which oversee and determine the asset allocation of multi-asset-class funds such as the Vanguard Target Retirement Funds. He has served as a co-portfolio manager of several multi-asset-class funds since February 2023.

Before joining Vanguard in 2007, Roger served as a visiting professor of macroeconomics at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business.

Roger has published on investment and macroeconomic issues and has presented at industry and academic conferences, including the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the American Enterprise Institute, and the American Economic Association. He is frequently interviewed by financial media around the world.

Roger earned a B.A. in economics from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, and a Ph.D. in economics from North Carolina State University.

Jumana Saleheen, Ph.D., is head of the Investment Strategy Group, Europe, and chief European economist. She leads a team in London that conducts research on economics, capital markets, and related investment topics. Her areas of expertise include monetary policy, international macroeconomics, and macroeconomics forecasting.

The Investment Strategy Group conducts research on economies and markets, investor behavior, and retirement issues. It is responsible for the firm’s portfolio construction and investment advice methodologies. The group also oversees Vanguard’s investment models, including the Vanguard Capital Markets Model, a proprietary forecasting tool that underpins the firm’s economic and capital markets outlook.

Before joining Vanguard in 2022, Jumana was chief economist at commodity consulting firm CRU Group. She also held several senior roles at the Bank of England, where most of her career was in the Monetary Stability Directorate and she later was head of division in the Financial Stability Directorate.

Jumana is a frequent keynote speaker and has published in leading academic journals including Economica and the Journal of International Economics.

Jumana earned a Ph.D. in economics from University College London and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the London School of Economics.

Qian Wang, Ph.D., is chief economist, Asia-Pacific, and global head of the Vanguard Capital Markets Model team in the Investment Strategy Group. She leads a team that conducts research on the global economy with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region, global capital markets, and related investment topics. Her areas of expertise include macroeconomics, Asia and Chinese economies, fixed income strategies, financial simulation, asset-class modeling, and asset allocation strategies.

Qian is a member of Vanguard’s Strategic Asset Allocation Committee and its Time-Varying Asset Allocation Subcommittee, which oversee and determine the asset allocation strategies of global multi-asset-class portfolios such as the Vanguard Target Retirement Funds.

Qian works closely with the senior portfolio management team of Vanguard Fixed Income Group. Her team also provides analytical support for various investment management initiatives and products, including the Vanguard Capital Markets Model®, Vanguard’s active management processes, and Vanguard’s advice platforms.

Before joining Vanguard in 2014, Qian was director of research at a sovereign wealth fund based in Asia and the chief China economist and head of greater China macro research at J.P. Morgan. Earlier in her career, she was an assistant professor in the business school of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and conducted empirical research in the fields of Asia and Chinese economies, international capital markets, and corporate finance.

Qian is a frequent keynote speaker on economic trends, capital market returns, and investment strategies and has published white papers in leading academic and practitioner journals.

Qian earned a Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford University, an M.A. in economics from Duke University, and a B.A. in international economics from Beijing University.

Kevin Khang, Ph.D., is a senior international economist and head of a global economic research team that develops Vanguard’s long-term and cyclical economic outlook. His areas of expertise include econometric forecasting, portfolio construction, risk management, tax-aware investing, and household finance.

Kevin joined Vanguard in 2017 as a senior risk manager with the firm’s Quantitative Equity Group and subsequently served as head of active and alternatives research before assuming his current role. Earlier in his career, he was a director at BlackRock and a senior quantitative researcher at State Street Global Advisors.

Kevin has published widely on topics such as financial crisis and deleveraging, volatility forecasting and risk management, factor portfolio construction, tax-aware investing, direct indexing, and the role of housing wealth in retirement. His research has been presented to global policymakers, portfolio managers, academics, and financial advisors. His work is frequently featured in the news media.

Kevin holds a Ph.D. in finance from Northwestern University, an M.A. in economics from the University of British Columbia, and a B.A.H. in economics from Queen’s University in Kingston.

Kevin J. DiCiurcio, CFA, is head of Vanguard Capital Markets Model® development in the Investment Strategy Group. Among his areas of expertise are asset return forecasting, portfolio construction, risk modeling, portfolio management, and fixed income investing.

The Vanguard Capital Markets Model research team designs models for asset return forecasts and performs quantitative market strategy research. Within the team, Kevin is responsible for planning and directing the global research agenda, with a mission to facilitate portfolio decision-making, provide asset return outlooks, and deliver timely perspective on relevant capital markets topics.

Kevin joined Vanguard in 2007. Prior to his current role, he was responsible for managing the asset allocation of multi-asset portfolios using proprietary Investment Strategy Group models. Previously, he worked as an investment analyst in Vanguard Risk Management Group, where he focused on fixed income investment risk.

Kevin earned a B.S. in finance from the University of Richmond and an M.B.A. from Villanova University. He is a CFA charterholder.

Josh M. Hirt, CFA, is a senior economist in Vanguard's Investment Strategy Group. He assists in the development of Vanguard's economic and market outlook, with a focus on the U.S. economy and monetary and fiscal policy, and authors research on related topics. His areas of expertise include macroeconomics, portfolio construction, financial analysis, and portfolio management.

Josh joined Vanguard in 2007. He previously served as an analyst in Vanguard Fixed Income Group, responsible for analysis related to the municipal bond market and risk positioning for Vanguard’s national and state-specific municipal bond funds.

Josh earned a B.S. from Liberty University and M.S. in Finance from Georgetown University. He is a CFA charterholder.

Shaan Raithatha, CFA, is a senior economist in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group, focusing on European macroeconomic, financial market, and climate-related research. He contributes to the thought leadership effort at Vanguard through analysis, presentations, and writing on key economic and investment strategy issues.

Prior to joining Vanguard, Shaan worked as a global economist and investment strategist at HSBC Global Asset Management. His primary responsibility was to conduct research for the actively managed global fixed income and multi-asset portfolios. He also contributed to the house view on key strategic and tactical asset allocation issues.

Shaan holds an M.A. in economics from the University of Cambridge and an M.Sc. in Finance from the London Business School. He is a CFA charterholder.

Boyu (Daniel) Wu, Ph.D., is a senior investment strategist in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group, where he specializes in asset return forecasting, quantitative modeling, portfolio construction, machine learning, and multi-asset investments.

His research on topics ranging from stock and bond correlation to the use of machine learning for understanding and forecasting Federal Reserve policy has been published in leading journals including The Journal of Financial Data Science, The Journal of Fixed Income, and The Journal of Investing.

Daniel joined Vanguard in 2018 as a strategist on the Investment Management Fintech Strategy Team. In that capacity, he employed quantitative methods and machine learning techniques to design fixed income trading strategies, including those involving credit default swaps, municipal bonds, and Treasuries.

Daniel earned a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Washington, an M.S.E. in applied mathematics and statistics from Johns Hopkins University, an M.A. in financial economics from Harvard University, an M.S. in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in systems engineering and engineering management from George Washington University.

Grant Feng, Ph.D., is a senior economist in Vanguard’s Asia-Pacific Investment Strategy Group and is responsible for research on economics, capital markets, and related investment topics. He works closely with the portfolio management team in Vanguard’s Fixed Income Group and contributes to Vanguard’s global thought leadership.

His areas of expertise include monetary policy, international macroeconomics, and macroeconomics forecasting, with a focus on Asian economies.

Before joining Vanguard in 2023, Grant held senior economist roles at central banks, investment banks, and technology companies. He worked as a lead economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Grant has also been an economist for leading banks in Hong Kong, a senior economist at JD Group, and an assistant professor of economics at Nankai University in China. His research on open economy macroeconomics has been published in top-tier academic journals, including the Journal of International Money and Finance.

Grant earned a Ph.D. in economics from Hong Kong Baptist University and an M.A. and B.A. in economics from Ocean University of China.

Gregory Davis, CFA, is president and chief investment officer at Vanguard, responsible for all aspects of the firm’s investment management, retirement business, and services for financial advisor clients, overseeing the majority of Vanguard's fund and ETF distribution. Greg is a member of Vanguard’s Global Investment Committee, Global Remuneration Committee, Strategic Asset Allocation Committee, and Global Operational Risk Council.

Greg joined Vanguard in 1999 and previously served as principal and global head of Vanguard Fixed Income Group, responsible for portfolio management, strategy, credit research, trading, and planning. He also served as Vanguard’s Asia-Pacific chief investment officer and as a director of Vanguard Investments, Australia. Prior to joining Vanguard, he worked at Merrill Lynch as an associate in global debt markets.

Greg is a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He is also a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets. Greg also serves as the vice chair of the board of trustees for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. In addition, he is a lifetime member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Greg earned a B.S. in insurance from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. in finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

Rodney Comegys is the global head of Vanguard’s Equity Index Group, which manages the firm’s equity index funds and ETFs. His areas of expertise include index fund management, securities trading, benchmark analysis, risk management, and operations.

As a senior member of Vanguard’s Investment Management Group (IMG), Rodney oversees the investment professionals responsible for more than 200 U.S. and international equity index funds and ETFs. Since joining the IMG team in 2008, he has helped the firm expand its international business; launch new index funds, ETFs, and factor products; and build processes and technology for equity management and trading systems.

Rodney joined Vanguard in 1999. His past roles at Vanguard include head of investments, Asia-Pacific, and head of Equity Index Group, Asia-Pacific. He has directed the Index Analysis and ETF Trading Teams, as well as the Global Broker Relations Team. He managed risk analysis oversight for the Fixed Income and Equity Investment Groups, led Vanguard’s Six Sigma program management efforts, and managed Vanguard’s retail business in Arizona. Most recently, he was global head of risk management for IMG.

Before joining Vanguard, Rodney was a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer.

Rodney earned a B.S. in engineering and an M.Sc. in regional science economics, both from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Sara Devereux is the global head of Vanguard Fixed Income Group and is responsible for all aspects of Vanguard’s in-house fixed income investment management including portfolio and risk management, trading, and research for actively managed taxable and tax-exempt funds, bond index portfolios, money market funds, and stable value trusts.

Sara is the chair of the Senior Investment Committee responsible for Vanguard’s actively managed fixed income portfolio, a member of the firm’s Global Investment Committee, and a member of its Investment Risk Council.

In her previous role, Sara served as global head of rates, with oversight of all active rates, money market portfolios, and rates-related strategies for Vanguard’s active taxable fixed income fund roster. She also directed foreign exchange and derivatives trading activities.

Before joining Vanguard in 2019, Sara was a partner at Goldman Sachs, where she spent over 20 years in mortgage-backed securities and structured products trading and sales. Earlier in her career, she worked at HSBC in risk management advisory and interest rate derivatives structuring. She started her career as an actuaryat AXA Equitable Life Insurance.

Sara holds a B.S. in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

John Ameriks, Ph.D., is global head of Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group, which manages or co-manages Vanguard active equity, alternative, multi-asset-class, and factor-based investment mandates using quantitative methods.

As a senior member of Vanguard’s Investment Management Group (IMG), John oversees the investment professionals responsible for more than 20 actively managed funds and ETFs. Since joining the IMG team in 2013, he has helped the firm launch new active funds and factor ETFs in markets around the world and led the introduction of enhanced processes and technology for quantitative research and portfolio management.

Before joining Vanguard in 2003, John was a senior research fellow at the TIAA-CREF Institute. John’s research has appeared in The Journal of Finance, The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Financial Planning, and elsewhere. His current research interests include quantitative equity investment strategies, behavioral economics, retirement finance, and solutions-oriented single-fund investments.

He earned an A.B. in economics from Stanford University and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.

Josh C. Barrickman, CFA, is co-head of fixed income indexing, Americas. He and his team manage bond index funds and ETFs invested in U.S. and international bond markets. His areas of expertise include portfolio management, ETFs, bonds, and indexing.

Josh, who joined Vanguard in 1998, has more than 20 years of fixed income management experience. He has served as portfolio manager of Vanguard’s largest bond fund, the Total Bond Market Index Fund, since 2013.

Christopher W. Alwine, CFA, is head of global credit in Vanguard Fixed Income Group, where he leads a global team of 65 investment professionals responsible for the management of Vanguard’s actively managed, credit-sensitive, taxable bond portfolios. Among his areas of expertise are portfolio management, fixed income securities, and credit analysis.

Chris is a member of the senior investment committee at Vanguard responsible for developing macro strategies for the firm’s internally managed active fixed income funds.

Chris joined Vanguard in 1990 and has more than 30 years of investment management experience, spanning both taxable and municipal markets as well as active and index funds. He has served in multiple roles in the Fixed Income Group, including trading, portfolio management, and credit research.

Chris earned a B.B.A. from Temple University and an M.S. in finance from Drexel University. A CFA charterholder, Chris is a member of the Temple University Leadership Council and the Dean’s Council of the university's Fox School of Business.

Janel Jackson is global head of ETF capital markets and broker and index relations at Vanguard. Her responsibilities include ensuring the quality and performance of Vanguard ETFs and overseeing global broker and index provider relationships for Vanguard’s Investment Management Group.

Prior to this role, Janel was head of U.S. ETF capital markets, where she led a team responsible for ensuring that Vanguard’s U.S.-domiciled ETFs had active and liquid markets. Before that, she served as a portfolio manager in Vanguard’s Asia-Pacific Quantitative Equity Group (QEG), where she was responsible for the daily portfolio management and oversight of quantitative active equity mandates operated through Vanguard’s Australia office.

Janel joined Vanguard in 2012 as part of the company’s M.B.A. Leadership Development Program. She has also served as chief of staff to Vanguard’s chief investment officer and as senior investment analyst in Vanguard Institutional Advisory Services®.

Earlier in her career, she worked as an investment analyst on the manager search and oversight team at Wilmington Trust Investment Management.

Janel earned a B.A. from Ohio University and an M.B.A. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She holds FINRA Series 7 and 66 licenses and is a member of the U.S. board of directors for Women in ETFs.

Warren Pennington is global head of Vanguard’s Office of Investment Management Fintech Strategies, leading a team that explores new technologies to improve Vanguard fund performance, works to enhance the efficiency of the global capital markets, and serves as a catalyst for innovation in Vanguard’s Investment Management Group.

Before joining Vanguard in 2012, Warren worked for the Macquarie Group in various senior leadership roles in its investment management division. Prior to that, he was division controller and ran operations in the consumer lending and corporate trust businesses at Wel

Warren serves on the SIFMA Operations and Technology Steering Committee. He also serves on several advisory boards, including the Ben Franklin Fintech Accelerator Program in Philadelphia, Yale Institute of Sustainable Finance, and Stanford Advanced Financial Technologies Lab.

Warren is a certified public accountant with a B.S. in aerospace engineering and an M.S. in telecommunications from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Nick Eisinger is the global co-head of Vanguard emerging markets active fixed income, responsible for the firm’s active emerging markets strategy. Among his areas of expertise are portfolio management, emerging-market debt, credit analysis, and currencies. He is also a member of Vanguard’s Global Credit Asset Allocation Committee.

Prior to joining Vanguard in 2013, Nick worked at Fidelity Management and Research, where he was responsible for a range of government bond markets in developed and emerging markets. He was a member of the firm’s global FX research team and part of its international macro research group.

Earlier, he worked at Deutsche Bank in London on the emerging markets trading desk, where he was part of a team that originated and structured asset-backed transactions in the Middle East and emerging Europe regions. Before that, Nick was head of the emerging markets securitization team at Fitch Ratings in London and worked in global sovereign ratings. He has also held positions with Oxford Economic Forecasting and Dun & Bradstreet in global country risk.

Nick earned a bachelor of arts in modern languages from the University of Edinburgh and a master of science in Latin American politics and economics from the University of London. He holds various qualifications in international banking and finance.

James J. Rowley, Jr., is Vanguard’s global head of investment implementation research and a member of the senior leadership team of the Investment Strategy Group. Among his areas of expertise are investment strategies, including indexing, active, and factor, as well as investment products, including mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).

Jim and his team conduct research and provide thought leadership on issues related to indexing, ETFs, active management, alternatives, factor strategies, and ESG (environmental, social, and governance).

Jim joined Vanguard in 2005 and has held positions of increasing responsibility on the firm’s ETF Product Management Team and in the Investment Strategy Group. Before joining Vanguard, Jim worked at Gartmore Global Investments, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch.

Jim’s research has been published in The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Journal of Beta Investment Strategies (formerly The Journal of Index Investing), and he has presented to global regulators, policymakers, industry peers, and investors. He is also frequently interviewed by the financial media.

A CFA charterholder, Jim is a past president of the CFA Society of Philadelphia and is an advisory board member of The Journal of Beta Investment Strategies.

Jim earned a B.S. from Villanova University and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Zachary Rayfield, Ph.D., CFA, is head of goals-based investing research in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group. He leads the team responsible for creating the research underlying Vanguard’s target-date funds, 529 college savings, and other goal-based investing solutions in the U.S. and abroad.

Before joining Vanguard, Zachary was a group vice president in multi-asset research at T. Rowe Price, where he led a team focused on strategic research for the firm’s target-date and retirement solutions products. In earlier roles, he was a senior quantitative analyst and a senior manager in marketing analytics for T. Rowe Price.

Zachary earned a Ph.D. and an M.S. in operations research from Cornell University and a B.S. in mathematics from the University of Maryland. He is a CFA charterholder.

Jan-Carl Plagge, Ph.D., is head of ESG research in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group, focusing on the implications of the various forms of ESG investing for investor outcomes. Jan-Carl has published in peer-reviewed journals and has presented his work at practitioner and academic conferences.

Jan-Carl has more than 15 years of experience in the financial industry. Prior to joining Vanguard in 2018, he was head of research and co-head of product at STOXX, working in Frankfurt, New York, and London. He also held product development roles with Deutsche Börse AG, where he was responsible for the development of international equity and strategy indexes.

Jan-Carl earned a Ph.D. in finance from the EBS-Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Wiesbaden, Germany, and an M.Sc. in business management from the University of Münster, Germany.

Stephen Lawrence, Ph.D., is head of indexing research in the Investment Strategy Group where his research focuses on the future of index investing and the vital role it plays in improving investor outcomes.

His areas of expertise include the performance of active and passive investments, corporate finance, and incorporating insights from financial economics, data science, and machine learning.

Earlier in his Vanguard career, he was head of investment management fintech data science, overseeing data science applications of new structured and unstructured data sources into the investment process.

Before joining Vanguard in 2018, Stephen was head of quantextual research at State Street Bank, where he led a machine learning product team. He also previously led FX and macro flow research for State Street Global Markets.

Stephen earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in finance from Boston College. In 2015, he gave a TED Talk titled “The Future of Reading. It’s Fast.”

Andrew J. Patterson, CFA, is head of active and alternatives research in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group (ISG). He leads Vanguard’s research efforts on active management, alternative investments, and indexing. He and his team provide analytical support for various investment management initiatives and products, including Vanguard’s active management processes and advice platforms. Andrew’s areas of expertise include economics, investments, asset allocation, and investment strategy.

Andrew joined Vanguard in 2002 and served as a client representative associate and an analyst in the Finance Division and the Institutional Investor Group. He joined ISG in 2009 and has held a series of investment strategist and economist positions. He led the economics research team charged with developing and communicating Vanguard’s economic and market outlook before taking on his current role.

Andrew has co-authored research on a number of topics, including equity and fixed income investing, asset allocation, and global economic trends. He also regularly serves as an ambassador for Vanguard, speaking at client events and industry conferences on a range of topics, and is frequently cited in the financial media.

Andrew earned a B.S. in finance from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from Villanova University. He is a CFA charterholder.

Douglas M. Grim, CFA, is a senior researcher in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group, conducting research and providing thought leadership on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues in investing, factor-based investing, public and private active management, and indexing. His areas of expertise include ESG, portfolio construction, alternative investments, and factor investing.

Earlier in his career, Doug served as a senior investment consultant in Vanguard Institutional Advisory Services®. In that position, he provided asset allocation and portfolio construction recommendations, investment policy consulting, and capital markets research to institutional clients. He also served as a team leader, responsible for assisting other consultants with all asset allocation and asset/liability modeling studies developed for clients.

Doug is a member of the advisory board of The Journal of Impact and ESG Investing. He frequently presents at investment forums and has published research in The Journal of Portfolio Management, The Journal of Impact and ESG Investing, The Journal of Beta Investment Strategies (formerly The Journal of Index Investing),and the Journal of Investment Management.

Doug earned a B.S. from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

Richard F. Powers is head of private equity product in Vanguard Portfolio Review Department (PRD). His areas of expertise are investment strategies including indexing, active, and factor, as well as investment products including mutual funds, collective investment trusts, and ETFs.

In 2015, Rich became the head of ETF product management, leading a team of experts responsible for conducting surveillance of competitors’ products and positioning, meeting with clients and prospective investors to discuss Vanguard's ETF lineup, publishing noteworthy developments in the ETF marketplace and Vanguard products, improving existing products, developing new products, and supporting ETF education initiatives. In 2020, his team’s responsibilities expanded to include all of Vanguard’s equity and fixed income index products.

Rich joined Vanguard in 1999 and become an investment analyst in PRD in 2003. He was a longtime senior member of the Oversight and Manager Search Team, which is responsible for identifying advisory partners for Vanguard’s actively managed funds lineup and monitoring the firms, people, processes, portfolios, and performance of all existing Vanguard funds on behalf of the firm’s Global Investment Committee and board of directors.

A frequent speaker at industry conferences, Rich is also widely quoted in the media and has made numerous national television appearances on the topic of ETFs.

Rich earned a B.S.B.A. in finance from Shippensburg University and an M.B.A. in investment management from Drexel University.

Jeffrey Johnson, CFA, is head of U.S. fixed income product in Vanguard Portfolio Review Department. His team of fixed income specialists and strategists monitors the ongoing health of the company’s fixed income product lineup and recommends and implements changes to existing products or additions of new products. The team also drives thought leadership about the fixed income product category and serves as an ambassador through client and media engagements.

Previously, Jeff was co-head of U.S. bond indexing in Vanguard Fixed Income Group, overseeing 20 portfolio managers and traders responsible for more than $800 billion in assets across more than 50 mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). He was also in Australia for six years, first as head of investment strategy, Asia-Pacific, and later as head of fixed income, Asia-Pacific.

Earlier in his career, Jeff was a senior investment director in the Portfolio Review Department, serving as an investment consultant to Vanguard’s senior management and board of directors. He joined Vanguard in 2000, initially working with high-net-worth individual clients.

Jeff holds a B.A. in finance and economics from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and an M.B.A. from Villanova University. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia. He is a board member of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation and serves on its investment committee.

Fiona Greig, Ph.D., is global head of investor research and policy in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group, where she leads Vanguard’s global retirement and investor behavior research efforts. She is a leading expert in household finance and the use of financial data to drive insights for both policymakers and business leaders.

Before joining Vanguard in 2022, Fiona was co-president and founding research director of the JPMorgan Chase Institute for more than seven years. During her tenure, she authored more than 40 papers covering a range of household finance topics, including income and spending trends, student loan and housing debt, the gig economy, and the impacts of fiscal relief policies, all with an underlying focus on low- and moderate-income families as well as racial and gender disparities.

Earlier in her career, she was deputy budget director for the City of Philadelphia, a consultant at McKinsey & Company for public and social sector clients, and a consultant at the Washington DC Economic Partnership. She has also been an adjunct professor at Harvard Kennedy School, the University of Pennsylvania, and Georgetown University.

Fiona earned a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School.

Kelly Hahn is head of retirement research in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group. Her focus is on improving people’s retirement outcomes through examining saving and investing behaviors and the surrounding retirement ecosystem. She leads a dedicated research team that studies retirement planning, savings, spending, and access, with the goal of providing solutions and education that enhance people’s chances of achieving retirement success. Her areas of expertise include retirement readiness, defined contribution plans, multi-asset solutions, and investor education.

Kelly joined Vanguard in 2023 from JPMorgan Asset Management, where she led outcomes-driven retirement research that harnessed behavioral insights from massive consumer and defined-contribution administrative datasets. Earlier in her career, she was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and a consultant at BearingPoint and Arthur Andersen.

Kelly earned an M.B.A. in finance from Columbia Business School and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Ankul Daga is an investment strategist specializing in goals-based investing research in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group. He is part of the team responsible for creating the research underlying Vanguard’s target-date funds, 529 college savings, and other goal-based investing solutions in the U.S. and abroad.

Ankul also helps build enterprise research models and meets with clients to provide long-term investment perspectives.

In addition, he covers a range of other research topics, including portfolio construction, multi-asset investing, retirement strategies, passive and active investments, and advisor best practices.

Before joining Vanguard in 2015, Ankul served as wealth manager at Coutts, a large wealth management firm in the U.K. He also has held investment strategist roles with Merrill Lynch and Barclays.

Ankul earned a master’s degree in financial mathematics from Warwick Business School, and he is pursuing an M.B.A. at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a CFA® charterholder. He also contributes to the DC Committee of The Investment Association, the U.K. industry trade group, and he is an active member of the Independent Governance Committee for Vanguard’s UK investment pathways.

Fu Tan, Ph.D., is a senior investment strategist specializing in retirement research in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group. She conducts research on health care and longevity risk, life-cycle portfolio choice, retirement wealth accumulation, and retirement readiness and spending. Her areas of expertise include health and aging, household finance, and retirement planning and policy.

Fu’s research generates insights on retirement using public micro datasets, such as The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study and the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances, as well as Vanguard administrative datasets. She has published papers on health care risk and its implications for portfolio choice in retirement. Her recent paper on machine learning clustering of health care risk was published inThe Journal of Financial Data Science.

Before joining Vanguard in 2019, Fu earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, an M.A. in economics from Duke University, and a B.A. in finance from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Timothy Smart is a senior investment strategist in Vanguard’s Asia-Pacific Investment Strategy Group and specializes in goals-based investing research. He develops glide-path-based and multiasset strategies to help investors meet their goals. He has a particular focus on the Australian market and its superannuation system, conducting research on retirement decision-making and outcomes.

Timothy has a strong interest in lifetime investment and consumption decision-making, and in the implications of investor preferences and goals for portfolio construction. He is a co-author of the paper The Multi-Goal Framework: Why Practitioners Have Not Adopted the Lifecycle Model—Yet, which was published in The Journal of Retirement.

Timothy joined Vanguard in 2017. He earned a BCom (Hons) in finance and economics with an honors year in finance from the University of Melbourne.

Fiona Greig, Ph.D., is global head of investor research and policy in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group, where she leads Vanguard’s global retirement and investor behavior research efforts. She is a leading expert in household finance and the use of financial data to drive insights for both policymakers and business leaders.

Before joining Vanguard in 2022, Fiona was co-president and founding research director of the JPMorgan Chase Institute for more than seven years. During her tenure, she authored more than 40 papers covering a range of household finance topics, including income and spending trends, student loan and housing debt, the gig economy, and the impacts of fiscal relief policies, all with an underlying focus on low- and moderate-income families as well as racial and gender disparities.

Earlier in her career, she was deputy budget director for the City of Philadelphia, a consultant at McKinsey & Company for public and social sector clients, and a consultant at the Washington DC Economic Partnership. She has also been an adjunct professor at Harvard Kennedy School, the University of Pennsylvania, and Georgetown University.

Fiona earned a B.A. in international relations from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard Kennedy School.

Andy Reed, Ph.D., is head of investor behavior research in the Investment Strategy Group. He leads a global team of behavioral scientists who study how and why investors make decisions, cultivating insights and strategies to promote better choices for millions of investors. His research blends psychology and economics to explore the role of personality and emotion in decision-making, how behavioral biases and risk tolerance shape investor preferences,and the impact of choice architecture on decisions.

Before joining Vanguard, Andy was a vice president in behavioral economics at Fidelity, where he established a behavioral economics practice. At Fidelity he co-authored white papers on financial wellness and total well-being, conducted large-scale experiments to improve investor outcomes, and presented research insights to investors, financial advisors, and retirement plan sponsors.

Previously, he was an associate research scientist at Columbia University and a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. Andy earned a B.A. in history and psychology from Swarthmore College and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Cornell University.

Anna earned a B.A. in sociology from the University of the Philippines at Los Banos and an M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology and demography from Pennsylvania State University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carolina Population Center.

Thomas J. De Luca is a senior researcher, investor behavior, in Vanguard’s Investment Strategy Group, responsible for conducting research on investor preferences and decision-making and applying behavioral insights to real-world settings. His areas of expertise include financial modeling, data analysis, and investor behavior.

Tom’s research examines the behavior of self-directed individual investors, including retirement withdrawal trends, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) fund usage, and investor reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to joining Vanguard in 2014, Tom served as a captain and meteorologist in the U.S. Air Force.

Tom holds a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University, M.S. degrees in applied mathematics and meteorology from the Naval Postgraduate School, an M.B.A. with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management, and an M.P.S. in data analytics from Pennsylvania State University.

Paulo Costa, Ph.D., is a senior behavioral economist in the Investment Strategy Group, where his research interests include behavioral finance, financial planning, and the value of financial advice.

Paulo’s current research examines the value clients get from human and robo advisors, the value of personalized financial advice, and the steps investors should consider to achieve financial wellness. His recent work also includes study of the safe withdrawal rate for FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early) investors. In addition to conducting research, Paulo frequently meets with clients to present Vanguard’s thought leadership on investor behavior and financial advice.

Prior to joining Vanguard, his research focused on quantitative equity strategies and how the framing of financial information affects investor behavior.

Paulo holds a B.A. in economics from Yale University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

Joel M. Dickson, Ph.D., is Vanguard’s global head of enterprise advice methodology. He oversees all investment methodology development for Vanguard’s advice programs, including Vanguard Personal Advisor Services and Vanguard Digital Advisor. Among his areas of expertise are investment strategy, portfolio construction, tax efficiency, portfolio management, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and alternative investments.

Joel chairs Vanguard’s Advice Policy Committee and is a member of Vanguard’s Strategic Asset Allocation Committee.

Since joining Vanguard in 1996, Joel has held a number of senior investment-related roles. He led Vanguard’s ETF Industry Thought Leadership Research Team in Vanguard Investment Strategy Group, analyzing trends and developments in the ETF market. He served as head of the Active Quantitative Equity Group with oversight responsibility for all research and portfolio management activities associated with Vanguard’s internally managed active equity portfolios. Prior to those roles, he held analyst positions in Vanguard’s Portfolio Review Group.

Before joining Vanguard, Joel worked as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Board. He has testified before U.S. congressional committees on Social Security reform and mutual fund disclosure issues, and he is often quoted in the news media on tax-efficient investing, retirement savings strategies, and ETF industry and product issues.

Joel earned an A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.

Garrett Harbron, J.D., CFA, CFP®, became Vanguard’s head of global wealth planning methodology in 2023. He leads a team that conducts research and analysis on a wide range of retirement and wealth planning topics for Vanguard’s advice offers globally. He previously was head of European wealth planning research.

Garrett’s areas of expertise include employer defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans, retirement planning, portfolio tax optimization, estate planning, asset allocation, passive and active strategies, and alternative investments. He also serves on Vanguard’s Advice Policy Council and Vanguard Europe’s Advice Investment Policy Council.

Garrett joined Vanguard in 2011 and also has served in the Investment Strategy Group as a member of a research team focusing on retirement planning, indexing, ETFs, and advice. Prior to his Vanguard career, Garrett worked for Merrill Lynch as a financial advisor, at Oppenheimer Funds as a retirement plan consultant, and at Wells Fargo Advisors as a compliance consultant. He also practiced law in the United States for five years.

Garrett earned a B.A. in economics from Indiana University and an M.B.A. and J.D. from the University of Cincinnati. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® and Certified Financial Planner™ certifications.

Stephen M. Weber, CFP®, is a senior researcher in Vanguard’s U.S. Wealth Planning Research Group, which is responsible for overseeing the investment philosophy, methodology, and wealth management strategies supporting Vanguard's advisory products and services. His areas of expertise include financial planning, health care planning, portfolio construction, and retirement.

Stephen joined Vanguard in 1992 and has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry.

He earned an M.B.A. and M.S.I.S. from Pennsylvania State University and has held the CFP® certification for more than 20 years.

Anatoly Shtekhman, CFA, is head of global advised portfolio construction for Vanguard’s enterprise advice methodology team. In his role, Anatoly leads the team responsible for creating the methodology that powers Vanguard’s portfolio construction advice.

Previously, he was a senior portfolio manager in Vanguard Quantitative Equity Group, where he conducted research on portfolio construction and managed global macro and quantitative funds.

Anatoly joined Vanguard in 2007 as a senior investment strategist in the Investment Strategy Group, leading the quantitative analyst team that oversees the Vanguard Capital Markets Model, conducting and publishing research on portfolio design and alternative asset classes, and presenting investment topics in public forums. Before joining Vanguard, Anatoly was a risk manager at John Hanco*ck Financial Services.

Anatoly earned B.S. in mathematics from the University of Scranton, an M.S. in finance from Boston College, and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Philadelphia.

Megan Finlay is a senior investment strategist in Vanguard’s Portfolio Construction Research Group, specializing in topics in asset allocation and portfolio optimization. She is part of the team responsible for overseeing Vanguard’s portfolio construction advice. She also serves on Vanguard Europe’s Advice Investment Policy Council.

Previously, she was a vice president at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where she focused on equities trading as part of a portfolio management team.

Megan earned a B.S. in management from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Boris Wong, Ph.D., WMCP, is the senior manager of Vanguard’s Wealth Planning Research Group. He leads a team that conducts research and analysis on a wide range of financial planning and wealth management topics for Vanguard’s advisory products and services.

Boris and his team oversee the Vanguard Financial Advice Model, a proprietary model that can evaluate multiple financial strategies simultaneously to make optimal financial planning decisions. He has published research on wealth planning topics that include Roth conversion, Social Security, and health savings accounts.

Boris earned a B.S. in mathematics and a B.A. in quantitative economics from the University of California, Irvine, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego. He holds the Wealth Management Certified Professional® certification.

Thomas Paradise, CFA, is a senior manager in Vanguard’s Enterprise Advice Group. He leads a team of methodology engineers who design and build financial models for conducting research and serving investors. His research includes tax-efficient investing, life-cycle optimization, direct indexing, and financial planning. He previously held positions in investment research and software development at Vanguard. His work has been published in The Journal of Beta Investment Strategies and Financial Analysts Journal.

Tom earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Bucknell University. He is a CFA charterholder.