Meet Wouter

Wouter Van Overfelt joined Vontobel in April 2013 and headed the Emerging Markets Corporate Bonds. In April 2026, he was appointed Head Emerging Markets Platform of the Vontobel Fixed Income Boutique.

Before joining Vontobel, from 2012 to 2013, he was Head of Business Control within the Central Portfolio Management unit at Gaz de France Suez. Prior to that, he worked in various positions at Dexia: from 2010 to 2012 as Senior Credit Risk Modeler in the Credit Portfolio Modeling & Pricing team, and from 2008 to 2010 as portfolio manager of corporate and total return bond funds in the Fixed Income team within Asset Management. He started his career in 2002, modeling credit spreads on high-yield bonds.

Wouter holds a PhD and a Master’s degree in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerp.