Bio

Ms. Desai, Managing Director and Co-Director of Research for Oaktree’s High Yield Bond strategy, joined Oaktree in 2010. Ms. Desai serves on Oaktree’s United Groups Connect Diversity & Inclusion Council (UGC) and Oaktree’s ACORN employee resource network. Prior to joining Oaktree, she spent three years in private equity investing at Harvest Partners and two years in investment banking at Citi in the Financial Sponsors Group. Ms. Desai graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a B.S. degree in finance and information systems and earned her M.B.A. from Cornell University.