Kostas Deslis, Senior Vice President, joined the firm in 2017 to work on the Global Fixed Income and Currency Team. Kostas’s primary responsibility is trading and portfolio management of portfolio strategies, but he also contributes to the quantitative and fundamental research of the Global Fixed Income team. Kostas also conducts cross asset research and trading of structured solutions across various portfolios. Prior to joining Neuberger Berman Kostas worked for more than 3 years at Deutsche Bank AG. At Deutsche Bank he was the Cross Asset Model Methodology specialist in London. He also worked as trading Assistant in the EM Derivatives team. Kostas holds an MSc in Mathematical Trading and Finance for Cass Business School, an MSc in Financial Engineering and Alpha Design from WorldQuant and a first-class BSc and MSc in Applied Physics from the National Technical University of Athens.