Christopher Berger is a member of BlackRock's Financial Markets Advisory (FMA) Group. The FMA team provides a wide range of advisory, valuation, and innovative portfolio management solutions for its clients, which include banks, insurance companies, official institutions, and other financial intermediaries. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2015, Mr. Berger was a senior analyst within the Markets group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), where he led the coverage of corporate credit markets, providing senior policy makers with macroeconomic analysis on developments in high yield and leveraged finance markets. While at the bank, he also led the group's daily market monitoring efforts and assisted in preparing the groups cross-asset analyses ahead of FOMC meetings. Prior to working at the FRBNY, Mr. Berger was an associate at Orion Consultants, a fixed income consulting firm.
Mr. Berger earned a BA degree, cum laude, in history from Princeton University in 2006 and a Masters degree in international affairs from the Fletcher School at Tufts University in 2011.