Sophie Bosch de Hood, executive director, is a country specialist for Brazilian equities, within the Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific (EMAP) Equities team based in New York. Sophie joined the Firm in 1999 on the client side and in 2001 transitioned to work in research covering consumer and industrial companies in Latin America and EMEA. Sophie holds a B.A. in Business Management from the Wharton School and a B.S. in International Relations from the College of Arts and Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She speaks Spanish, English and Portuguese fluently.