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 serves on the board of Hudson River Park Friends, an organization dedicated to the completion, care and enhancement of Hudson River Park. Ms. Yoder 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.