BlackRock India (Offshore) Class D4 - Income (GBP)

Sidharth Mahapatra, Managing Director, is a portfolio manager on the Global Emerging Markets Equities Team within the Fundamental Active Equity division of BlackRock's Active Equity Group. Mr. Mahapatra manages the India strategies. He is also research pod leader of the South Asia pod. Prior to joining BlackRock in June 2018, he worked with Amundi, based in Hong Kong. He was managing their India offshore funds and was also responsible for their India allocations for the regional mandates. Before that, he had a six year stint with JPMorgan on the sell side, covering primarily HK based Long Only investors. This came after six years with HSBC, initially as a research analyst covering Autos & Consumer Discretionary and then in Equity Sales. Initially his research and sales experience was when he was based in Mumbai. He then relocated to HK as part of the HSBC sales desk in HK. His first job, after his MBA, was with Bajaj Electricals in Mumbai in a sales role. Sid completed his MBA from Xavier Institute Of Management, Bhubaneswar and is an undergrad in Physics from St Xavier's College, Mumbai.

Andrew Swan, Managing Director, is the Head of Global Emerging Markets Equities within the Fundamental Active Equity division of BlackRock's Active Equities Group. Mr. Swan manages the Asian Dragon strategy as well as being a co-manager on the Asian Growth Leaders, Asia Pacific Absolute Return, Global Emerging Markets, and Indian strategies. He is also responsible for setting equity investment strategy and developing BlackRock's Global Emerging Markets investment platform and capabilities. Prior to joining BlackRock in August 2011, Mr. Swan spent a 17-year investment career with JP Morgan. He initially joined as a research analyst in Sydney in 1994, before transferring to Singapore in 2002 to join JP Morgan's Pacific Regional team as head of Asia Pacific media research. In 2004, Mr. Swan took up his role as a portfolio manager with JF Asset Management (wholly owned by JP Morgan) and was subsequently responsible for managing over USD 5bn in Asia Pacific equity portfolios. He relocated to Hong Kong in 2005. Mr. Swan earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours in Accounting and Finance) from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1993.