Christian Stracke

Mr. Stracke is a managing director in the Newport Beach office, a member of PIMCO's Investment Committee, and global head of the credit research group. The group covers all levels of the debt capital structure for targeted industries, including investment grade and high yield bonds, bank debt and convertibles. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2008, he was a senior credit strategist at CreditSights and also held positions as head of Latin America fixed income strategy with Commerzbank Securities and head of Latin America local markets strategy with Deutsche Bank. He has 14 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago.