Suni Harford was recently named head of investments at UBS Asset Management, overseeing $600 billion in assets invested for clients around the world across a variety of active, systematic and hedge fund investment strategies.

Until her move to UBS in May, Suni served as a managing director and Citigroup’s regional head of markets for North America. Having worked at Citi for 24 years, she was a member of Citi’s Pension Plan Investment Committee and a director on the board of Citibank Canada. She has been a champion of diversity in the finance industry, serving as co-head of Citigroup’s global women’s initiative, Citi Women, and on the board of the Forte Foundation. She is also passionate about our veteran community and is involved in many organizations in this regard. In addition to serving on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Veterans’ Employment Advisory Council, she has worked with Michelle Obama’s Joining Forces initiative, helped formalize Citi’s successful Veterans Initiative, CitiSalutes, in 2009, and was a founding member of Veterans on Wall Street in 2010. For those efforts she recently received the Outstanding Civilian Service Award from the U.S. Army.

Suni received her B.S. from Denison University, in physics and math, and holds an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Suni lives in Connecticut with her husband, three children – Devon, Jenna, and Liam – and their dogs, Sully and Mike Wazowski.