Deborah Fuhr was the Global Head of ETF Research and Implementation Strategy and a Managing Director at BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors from Sept 2008 – Oct 2011. Under Ms Fuhr’s guidance, BlackRock’s Global ETF Research and Implementation Strategy team was responsible for advising clients on the implementation of asset allocation strategies using ETFs, producing analysis and guidebooks on the global ETF industry. In addition, the team designed and produced the comprehensive ETF Landscape weekly, monthly and quarterly industry reports, which covered trends and insights from the global industry, and on developing and implementing asset allocation strategies using ETFs.

Prior to joining BlackRock in September 2008 Ms Fuhr she spent the past 11 years working at Morgan Stanley. She was a Managing Director and head of the Investment Strategies Group at Morgan Stanley based in London. The unit advised institutional investors globally and wrote on the implementation and strategy on the use of Delta products -

The group has won the award for most useful ETF Research by investors in Europe and the Americas 6 times and by investors in Asia Pacific and Africa 4 times, in an annual global survey conducted by ExchangeTradedFunds.com, and for three years, Deborah has in the same survey won the award for the Greatest Overall Contribution to the development of the Global ETF industry. In 2011, Deborah also received an award for her contribution to the ETF sector in 2010 at the Closed-End Funds and Global ETFs Forum in New York, while her team also won the award for Best ETF Research in a survey conducted by ETF Express.

In 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2009, 2008, 2007 Ms Fuhr was named as one of the Top 100 women in Finance, a distinguished list of the most influential women in European Finance, by Financial News and in 2010 was featured in Investors Chronicle’s list of "150 People That Can Make You Money",