Gisela Medina, CAIA, CESGA, is Head of Fund & ETF Selection at BBVA Quality Funds, BBVA´s Global Third Party Selection Platform.
Ms. Medina has more than 22 years of experience working in financial markets, in different responsibilities, both in investments management and investments selection.
She joined BBVA 17 years ago to work in the Proprietary Trading Desk of the Global Markets Unit, investing in hedge funds. In 2009, she moved to Quality Funds, the global analysis and selection unit for third party funds for the whole BBVA group, where she was Head of the Quant Analysis and Selection for Alternative Funds. In 2019, she became Global Head of Fund & ETF Selection.
Prior to that, Ms. Medina was an Alternative Fund Manager at Ahorro Corporación and Gesmadrid SGIIC. She started her financial career as a Quant Analyst in charge of modelling alternative investment programs at Gesmadrid SGIIC.
Ms. Medina has a Degree in Mathematics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1998) and MSc in Financial Mathematics from University of Edinburgh (2001). She is a CAIA charterholder (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) and CESGA certification (Environmental, Social and Governance). She has obtained the MEFF (Mercado Español de Futuros y Opciones Financieros) license for trading and clearing.
She is fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
She loves travelling, forest bathing, art and science dissemination. She is a STEM Ambassador for Inspiring Girls Initiative and used to monitor a young robotic team for the First Lego League Junior Challenge. She is founder of BBVA BRG for gender diversity “Move for Equality” and founder of Spanish Banking Network “Women in Banking”.
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