Victoria Barbary

International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF)

Director, Strategy and Communications

Description

Victoria is the Director of Strategy and Communications at the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF), a global network of sovereign wealth funds with members from almost 40 countries. In her role, Victoria works with IFSWF members to curate a programme of online and offline knowledge-sharing and networking activities related to all aspects of their operations from governance to investment strategies. Victoria has worked in the sovereign wealth fund world for over a decade and has become a noted author and commentator on SWFs. In 2012, she founded the Sovereign Wealth Center, an online provider of data and analysis about SWFs, now part of Institutional Investor’s Sovereign Investor Institute. Before joining IFSWF, Victoria was Director of Investec Asset Management’s Investment Institute, which was responsible for the firm’s thought leadership. She started her career as the senior analyst in the Office of the Chairman at the Monitor Group, a strategy consultancy now part of Deloitte. Victoria earned a PhD in History from Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. She also has a BA (Hons) and MA with distinction in History from the University of Durham.