Simon Eugenio Nocera

Dr. Simon E.
Nocera is Founder, Principal & Chief Investment Officer at Lumen Advisors LLC.
He founded Lumen Advisors in March 2002 and sits on the Advisory Board of the Master of Science in Financial Analysis and Investment Management Program at the School of Economics and Business Administration at Saint Mary's College.
Prior to Lumen, Dr. Nocera has been the Co-chief investment officer, global emerging markets debt and Managing Director of Dresdner RCM Global Investors which he joined in January 1999.
He had previously been working at Soros Fund Management in 1998 where he was an advisor and portfolio manager for the Quantum Emerging Growth Fund.
From 1992 to 1997, he was CIO for Emerging Market Fixed Income at LGT where total assets in this product reached over $1.5 billion.
Earlier in his private sector career, He served as Global Strategist for Putnam's fixed income group, where he built the EM business to over $1bn.
From 1984 to 1990, he was an economist at the International Monetary Fund, and from 1982 to 1984 he was an economist for the European Economic Commission working as a technical advisor for Sub Sahara African Governments.
In 1994, Dr. Nocera was named the “Best Manager of the Year” by Business Week magazine and in 1996 his Fund was awarded the Five Stars ranking by Morningstar.
He holds a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Milan, Italy and a degree in Electronics Engineering from I.T.I.S.
in Vimercate, Italy.