Managing Director, Head of Active Public Markets, University Pension Plan Ontario
Christophe L’Ahelec is Managing Director, Head of Active Public Markets at University Pension Plan (UPP), responsible for global investment strategy with a particular focus on Active Public Equity, Active Public Credit, and Absolute Return Strategies.
Previously, he was Senior Principal at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, where he was accountable for the top-down management of the external managers portfolio and was part of the investment committee allocating to hedge fund, private credit and long only equity managers.
Earlier in his career, he held portfolio management and quantitative roles in Switzerland and Hong Kong.
Christophe is a graduate engineer in Finance and Applied Mathematics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble, France and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. He has been invited to speak globally on advanced portfolio and risk management topics and is also known for his work as an academic writer. His papers have been published in the Journal of Asset Management and the Journal of Alternative assets.