Jason Bonanca

Jason Bonanca likes to joke that his lack of understanding of monetary policy ultimately led the partner and head of strategy and research at $3.25 billion hedge fund firm MKP Capital Management to leave his public sector job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

After graduating from Tufts University with an MA in international relations, Bonanca, 37, was going to join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace when, at the urging of a professor, he applied for and won a Fulbright Scholarship. He attended the Institute for European Studies at the Free University of Brussels, where he studied international economics, just after the signing of the Maastricht Treaty.

Bonanca next headed to the New York Fed and then moved to Credit Suisse, where he was chief forex strategist, before joining New York–based MKP in summer 2008.

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