Jessica Zarzycki, CFA^®

Jessica is a portfolio manager for Nuveen’s global fixed income team. She is an integral part of the ESG/Impact fixed income strategy team and a lead portfolio manager for the Global Core Impact strategy and a co-portfolio manager on Core Impact Bond, Green Bond, and Short Duration Impact Bond strategies. She is a frequent panelist and speaker at ESG and Impact conferences and was a member of the ICMA Advisory Board (2020-21), which provides insight and guidance to the Executive Committee on issues affecting the Green, Social, and Sustainable Bond markets. She serves on the Steering Committee for the Orange Bond Principles. The Fixed Income Impact team were awarded “Investment team of the year –asset manager” and “Impact Report of the year” at Environmental Finance’s (EF) 2025 Sustainable Investment Awards in addition to “ESG Fund of the year –fixed income” at Environmental Finance’s (EF) 2024 Sustainable Investment Awards, “Investment team of the year –asset manager” and “Fund of the year –fixed income” at Environmental Finance’s (EF) 2023 Impact Awards.

Jessica joined the firm in 2008 as an agency MBS analyst before joining the International/EMD sector team as a European sovereign and agency analyst. Prior to Nuveen, she worked at Citi Global Wealth Management (GWM), helping to manage liquidity and risk of the GWM balance sheet.

Jessica graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from The Ohio State University. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the CFA Society New York and the CFA Institute.