Kathyrn Rooney Vera
StoneX
Kathryn Rooney is Chief Market Strategist at StoneX, where she is responsible for formulating investment strategies across asset classes for institutional clients globally based on her macroeconomic analyses and forecasting. Kathryn is a high-frequency contributor to television networks Bloomberg Television, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN en Español, and Fox Business. She is a frequent keynote speaker at major conferences in both the English and Spanish-speaking world.
Formerly, she served as Head of Global Macro Research and Chief Investment Strategist at Bulltick, where she was responsible for the firm’s overall capital market investment strategy. Before this, Kathryn was an Emerging Markets Latin America economist and strategist at Bear Stearns in Emerging Markets Fixed Income Research. She has worked on the buy-side as a sovereign analyst at MetLife Investments, conducting in-depth economic analyses on emerging markets and working closely with the portfolio manager on asset selection and portfolio allocations.
Kathryn holds a Master’s in Business degree specializing in Economics and Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business. She earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Spanish Literature from Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. She also studied at the University of Valencia in Spain.
Kathryn serves on the Advisory Board of the University of Miami’s Department of Economics—where she taught Global Economics as an adjunct professor.