John Harrison Porter

Dr. John H.
Porter is Global Head of Fixed Income & Structured Finance at AXA Investment Managers UK Ltd.
Dr. Porter became AXA Investment Managers Global Head of Fixed Income in November 2013.
He is member of AXA IM's Management Board and Committee Executive.
Prior to this, he was Managing Director and Global Head of Portfolio and Liquidity Management at Barclays, joining in 1998.
He was previously Chief Economist at Summit Capital Advisers, performing macro-economic analysis and developing investment strategies in North America, Europe and Japan.
From 1993 to 1996, he was Director at Moore Capital Management in Paris, managing the Paris subsidiary as well as running a portion of the firm's fixed income fund and advising the general investment portfolio on strategic positioning in global credit markets.
Prior to this, Dr. Porter spent over 10 years at the World Bank.
He worked as a Senior Economist designing structural adjustment loans, before moving to join the Investment Department and in 1990 was named Chief Investment Officer responsible for managing a portion of their USD20 billion global fixed income portfolio.
Dr. Porter received a Master of Arts in International Economics and Certificate in European Studies from Columbia University (1983), a Doctorate in Psychology from the Sorbonne (1980), attended the Ecole Normale Superieure (1976-1979) and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard (1976).