State Street Global Advisors, the asset management business of State Street Corporation, announced the appointment of Jennifer Taylor as Head of Emerging Market Debt (EMD) and Senior Portfolio Manager in the Global Fixed Income Beta Solutions Group, reporting to Abhishek Kumar, Head for Global Strategies, EMEA and APAC. Based in London, Jennifer will lead a team of specialist portfolio managers that manage a growing range of EMD strategies across a book of approximately $35 billion, in both local and hard currency mandates and funds. Prior to joining State Street Global Advisors, Jennifer spent eight years at Janus Henderson Investors in London, where she built and subsequently managed the EMD business, with a focus on hard currency mandates.

She previously held senior roles at Thames River Capital and several hedge funds, and started her career at JP Morgan in New York. She holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and finance from Boston College.