Kay Hope is a managing director and leads BofA’s fixed income research effort ESG issues globally. She is also a corporate credit analyst focusing on emerging market names across sectors, mainly in the CIS, Sub-Saharan Africa and Israel. She has been a top-ranked analyst across her categories for multiple years. Prior to joining the firm in 2010, Hope held emerging markets roles at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse First Boston. She also spent several years at McKinsey & Company in Moscow, and a year in Almaty, Kazakhstan, working for an international aid organization. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a master’s degree in Soviet foreign policy from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and a bachelor’s degree in Slavic literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is based in London.