Kate Murphy is an Investment Officer with Open Road.

 

A development economist by training, Kate previously was an investment principal with Soros Economic Development fund managing portfolios of direct and indirect investments globally.

 

Kate previously worked in debt capital markets within BNP Paribas and Crédit Agricole where she worked on leveraged finance transactions and structuring, respectively. Kate began her career at JP Morgan in high yield fixed income research. She holds a Masters in International and Development Economics from Yale University where she studied in the Economic Growth Center of the University's Department of Economics. She completed her graduate thesis on the regulatory frameworks of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community and the West African Economic and Monetary Union. Kate received her Bachelors of Arts Cum Laude from Barnard College, Columbia University where she majored in Political Science and completed minors in Economics and Religion. Her undergraduate studies focused on economic systems in Central and West Africa and included study in Cameroon.