Swetha Ramachandran is an Investment Manager in GAM's European Equity team, responsible for consumer research (staples and discretionary) for the last six years.

She has fourteen years of investment experience in European consumer/luxury stocks and a further three in Asia specifically covering listed companies across the continent. Prior to joining GAM in September 2012, she was a vice president in the asset management division of Alliance Bernstein, London, also focused on consumer stocks and before that, an analyst at Credit Suisse, London and Vigeo (Independent Ratings Agency), Paris. She began her career as a pan-Asian equity analyst at Goldman Sachs in Singapore. Swetha Ramachandran holds an MA in French Literature from Université Paris – Sorbonne, Paris, and a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London. She is based in London.