Lei is responsible for co-leading the European Secured Lending ("ESL") Strategy at Ninety One. He is a member of the ESL Investment Committee and is responsible for portfolio management, transaction origination and team management.

Lei has 19 years of experience in European performing, opportunistic and distressed credit investing and M&A advisory. Prior to joining Ninety One, Lei was a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director at Oak Hill Advisors (“OHA”), where he played an instrumental role in the development of the firm’s successful European credit business from 2009 to 2020. In addition to his portfolio management responsibilities, Lei was a member of OHA’s $2.7 billion Strategic Credit Fund investment committee and made important contributions to business development, team expansion and fundraising. Earlier in his career, Lei worked in the leveraged finance team at Merrill Lynch for five years.

Lei is British and Chinese and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.