We invite you to join us as the Portfolio Managers of  Lazard  focus on "Recalibrating Emerging   Market Exposure...for a New World (Dis) Order." Ganesh Ramachandran (Debt &   Currency) and Jai Jacob (Multistrat) will debate economic, fiscal and market drivers critical to EM investment decisions and will suggest strategies for optimizing EM allocations.

Speakers:

Jai  Jacob  is  a  Director  and  Portfolio  Manager/Analyst, leading the Global
Cross-Platform   Multi-Strategy   investment   team.   Prior   to   joining  the
Multi-Strategy  investment  team,  Jai  worked  in Global Risk Management, Fixed Income,  Quantitative  Technology  and  Settlements.  He  led the development of Lazard’s proprietary Risk Analysis system, and has built quantitative analytical tools  for  over  40  Lazard  investment  strategies.  Jai  began working in the investment  field  in  1998  upon  joining  Lazard.  He has a BA in English from Cornell University.

Ganesh  Ramachandran  is a Director and a Portfolio Manager/Analyst specializing in  emerging markets currency and debt. Ganesh has been a member of the Emerging Income  management  team  since  early  2001. He began working in the investment field in 1997 when he joined the Firm. Ganesh has his MBA from the University of Rochester,  Simon  School  of Business and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras.