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Puja Turner is Executive Director and Head of CEEMEA Loan Finance at J.P. Morgan. Puja completed her MBA from Wharton and went on to lead capital markets teams at top banks like Deutsche and Goldman Sachs, before coming back to J.P. Morgan to head the CEEMEA Loan Finance Team. In this conversation, she explains what debt financing is all about and what role it plays in stimulating growth in emerging markets. Puja also shares her advice for LSE students aiming to pursue a career in leveraged finance. 

We chat with Julian Macedo, founder of transaction management consultancy The Deal Team and former Head of CEEMEA ECM at Barclays, on the current trends in European M&A. We also ask Julian about his experience of becoming an entrepreneur after having worked in investment banking for more than 20 years, and what advice he has for students who wish to pursue a similar career path as him.

We chat with Dr. Ishrat Husain about Pakistan's balance of payment crisis and the economic imbalances that have led the emerging market economy to seek yet another IMF bailout. Dr. Ishrat Husain is the current Advisor to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Institutional Reforms and Austerity. He has also previously served as Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan and Chief Economist at the World Bank for Africa and the East Asia and Pacific Region.

Ken Lee is an MSc Programme Director at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), prior to which he was the Head of Equity Research EMEA at Barclays. In this episode, Ken reminisces about his time as a valuation analyst at Citi and provides insight on what incoming analysts should expect when they take up their roles after graduation.