Ali Gholi Hedayat

Ali Hedayat "works in the Americas Principal Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1997 as a financial analyst in the Investment Research Department in New York, where he covered Latin American markets for three years before moving to the Principal Strategies Group in 2000.

"Mr. Hedayat transferred to the London office in 2002, and then back to New York in 2007, where he is now the Portfolio Manager for GSPS Latin America and the chief operating officer of the US GSPS business. He was named managing director in 2006. He and his wife, Emanuela, have two daughters and live in New York.

"Mr. Hedayat received a Bachelor of Commerce degree, with honors, as a double major in Finance and Economics from McGill University in Montreal in 1996."

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