Emily Yoder is Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Strategic Relationships at Blackstone. In this role, Ms. Yoder serves as a primary interface for Blackstone’s bank, private markets, and other financial services relationships on a global basis, and is responsible for delivering a firmwide approach to relationship management.

Before joining Blackstone in 2021, Ms. Yoder worked at JPMorgan as a Managing Director in their Senior Relationship Management team, focusing on hedge funds and alternative asset managers. Ms. Yoder started her career in trading for JPMorgan, and was a founding member of the Emerging Markets Eurobond Trading team at JPMorgan in London. Ms. Yoder was the primary risk taker focusing on FX, Cross-Currency Swaps, and Local Market government bonds in CEEMEA & Latin America.

Ms. Yoder currently serves on the board of Hudson River Park Friends. She is also an advocate and champion for DREAM, an East Harlem and South Bronx-based educational and youth development non-profit organization. From 2021-2023, she sat on the board of Calvary, a leading end-of-life hospital and hospice care provider in the New York Tri-State area.

Ms. Yoder received a BA in Mathematical Economic Analysis and Latin America Studies from Rice University.