General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> February 17, 2003

George Hoguet – State Street Global Advisors

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 emerging

market at this time?

Mr. Hoguet: Narrowly defined, an emerging market, for us, is a

market that is included in one of the three