Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg is the president and CEO of Strategic Investment Group, which designs and implements global investment strategies for large institutions and individual investors. The group manages over US$ 35 billion for more than 400 investors in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Mrs. Ochoa-Brillembourg is the managing director of Emerging Markets Management L.L.C. She is a member of the board of directors of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund Credit Union, General Mills, Harvard Management Company, The McGraw-Hill Companies, National Symphony Orchestra and The Washington Opera and is chairman of The Youth Orchestra of the Americas. Also, she is a member of the investment committee of the Rockefeller Family Fund and of the advisory committees of the Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, The Hauser Center at Harvard University, and Sun Trust/Asset Management Advisors. Mrs. Ochoa-Brillembourg is also a member of the Executive Committee of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds.

Previously, Mrs. Ochoa-Brillembourg was the chief investment officer of the Pension Department of the World Bank, treasurer of CA Luz Eléctrica de Venezuela, and a consultant for the Development Ministry of Venezuela, the Foreign Relations Ministry of Venezuela, and Grupo Cisneros.

Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg was selected by the Fullbright Association to receive its 2005 Lifetime Achievement Medal; by Smart Money magazine as one of the Power 30 in Business; by Money magazine as one of the Top 50 Smartest Women in Business in the United States; and by Hispanic Business magazine as one of the Top 50 Hispanic Women in Business. She is a chartered financial analyst (CFA) and received her M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Harvard University. A Fulbright-Hays Fellow, she is a doctoral candidate in finance at the Harvard Business School.