General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> February 17, 2003
GEORGE R. HOGUET is a Principal of State Street Global Advisors
and Head of the firm's Active Emerging Markets team. Prior to
joining SsgA in 1998, he worked with the Chief Investment Officer
of Baring Asset Management and was based in both London and
Boston. Prior to Baring, Mr. Hoguet worked at Frank Russell
Company, Tacoma, Washington. He spent the first part of his
career in emerging market and domestic corporate finance at
Bankers Trust Company. From 1981-1985, Mr. Hoguet served at the
U.S. Treasury Department, first as U.S. Alternate Executive
Director to the World Bank and then as Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs.
Mr. Hoguet is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business
School. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a qualified
Financial Risk Manager, as certified by the Global Association of
Risk Professionals. Mr. Hoguet's affiliations/directorships
include: former President ' Boston Economic Club, Executive
Committee of the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations, Visiting
Committee ' Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at
Harvard, Council on Foreign Relations New York, New York,
Executive Advisory Board of the Middle East Institute in
Washington, Boston Fulbright Committee and the Boston Academy of
Music. His commentaries have appeared in various media, and he
has published in various industry journals. Profile
TWST: Could you first give us your definition of an emergingmarket at this time?
Mr. Hoguet: Narrowly defined, an emerging market, for us, is a
market that is included in one of the three