Jurrien Timmer is the director of Global Macro at Fidelity Investments. Fidelity Investments is a leading provider of investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, benefits outsourcing, and other financial products and services to institutions, financial intermediaries, and individuals.

Mr. Timmer is part of Fidelity’s Global Asset Allocation group, where he specializes in asset allocation and global macro strategy. Jurrien has been at Fidelity for 30 years and has four decades of experience in the industry. He appears frequently in front of Fidelity clients and in the media (CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business News), and his work can also be seen on Twitter & LinkedIn.

Prior to assuming his current position in 2005, Jurrien held various other roles within Fidelity, including technical research analyst and portfolio manager of the Fidelity Global Strategies Fund. Before joining Fidelity in 1995, Jurrien was a vice president in the Fixed Income group at ABN AMRO Bank in New York. He has been in the investments industry since 1985.

Jurrien earned his finance degree from Babson College in 1985. He was born and raised as a Dutch citizen in Aruba but has lived in the U.S. all his adult life. He became a dual citizen in 2002. Jurrien is a strong proponent of healthy work-life integration, is an avid traveler, cook and cyclist, and runs a food-related theme camp at Burning Man.