Rose Dean

Rose Dean is a Principal and Senior Consultant with NEPC. She joined NEPC in April 2023. Prior to joining NEPC, Ms. Dean spent 8 years as a Managing Director and senior consultant at Wilshire Advisors, providing consulting services to corporate and public pension funds, endowments, and foundations.

Rose has over 21 years of industry experience. Prior to her tenure at Wilshire, she ran a start-up consulting business, advising on opportunities focused on private credit and asset-based loan portfolios. She also spent seven years trading fixed income at Citigroup in New York, both as a market maker and as a bank treasury portfolio manager. Subsequently, she was a Director at Harcourt Alternative Investments, a Swiss Fund Hedge Funds. Rose was in charge of hedge fund investment due diligence for multiple strategies including fixed-income arbitrage, global macro, and emerging markets.

Rose holds a B.A. in Chemistry from the University of Chicago and two MBA degrees, one in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and one in International Brand Management from ESSEC (École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales) in France. She is fluent in Korean and conversant in Mandarin Chinese and French. Ms. Dean holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation.