Adam Choppin is an Investment Officer and Assistant Portfolio Manager of Emerging Markets Strategies at FIS Group, a $5.5bn Philadelphia-based manager-of-managers and global tactical allocation specialist. Mr. Choppin joined FIS in May 2013. Mr. Choppin is also on the leadership team of the Association of Professional Fund Investors as its Lead Representative for North America.

 

From 2008-2013, Mr. Choppin founded and ran a boutique investment advisory firm which advised on private investments in South America, Africa, and the Middle East.  Previously, Mr. Choppin worked for several U.S. Government agencies including as a trade and economic affairs liaison in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Ghana, and Mozambique. Most notably, in 2008 he organized the first official U.S. Government trade mission to Iraq in over 25 years.

 

Mr. Choppin earned his B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California (USC); his M.A. in International Economics and Business from Yale University; and a post-graduate Diploma in Finance from the London School of Economics.

 

While a student at USC, Mr. Choppin also read in Latin American economics and politics at the Universidade de São Paulo. He speaks Portuguese and Spanish.