Nazmeera is the Chief Commercial Officer, Private Markets at Ninety One. In this role, she oversees the firm's strategic relationships, product development and fund raising related to private markets. Prior to this, she was the Chief Sustainability Officer for Ninety One. In that role, she focused her efforts on working with global investors to catalyse more money into emerging market transition related investments and infrastructure.

Before that she was Head of SA Investments, where she worked across both public and private strategies in Africa. Before that she was co-Head of SA & Africa Fixed Income. Nazmeera has covered the macro-economy in South Africa and other emerging markets since 2000. She is passionate about making financial markets work to support development. Her remit has included the Emerging Africa and Asia Infrastructure Fund, which provides debt financing for infrastructure projects across Africa.

She joined the firm in 2013 from Macquarie First South where she was Head of Macro Strategy. She began her career as an economist at Merrill Lynch in South Africa and London.

Nazmeera graduated from the University of Cape Town with a Bachelor of Business Science degree and is a CFA® Charterholder.