Biography
Debbie McCoy, Managing Director, leads Impact Investing Strategy for the Scientific Active Equity group at BlackRock, where her responsibilities also include emerging markets.
Ms. McCoy joined the firm in 2015. Previously, she worked for Stanford University where she made investment recommendations to the university's endowment manager, conceived and co-taught an MBA finance elective course about investing in emerging and frontier markets, and was a Director of the Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies. Ms. McCoy began her career at Bain & Company in San Francisco and Johannesburg and later worked for Citigroup in New York and New Delhi and a sovereign wealth group. In 2013 and 2014, Ms. McCoy served as a non-partisan, Presidentially-appointed White House Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and trustee of the African Leadership Network.
Ms. McCoy received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Howard University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and MBA from Harvard Business School.