Melissa is a Director in Ninety One’s Emerging Market Alternative Credit team with over 10 years of industry experience. She assumes responsibility for deal origination and investment analysis, focusing on sustainable finance opportunities across sectors to support the Emerging Market Transition Debt Strategy. Her key responsibilities include new deal origination; credit analysis and underwriting; post-investment monitoring; client reporting and engagement.

Prior to joining the firm, Melissa was an investment manager at Arise Invest, a private equity investor. Before that she was an investment analyst at Futuregrowth Asset Management.

Melissa holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting and a Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting, both from University of Cape Town, and is a Chartered Accountant and CFA® Charterholder.