Adam Seymour, CFA

Adam Seymour is a Managing Director at Makena Capital Management, LLC, based in London. In his role, he is responsible for investment and client strategy efforts. Before joining Makena, he served as the Head of Absolute Return at the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), where he focused on manager selection and portfolio construction. He was also a senior member of the Fund Investments Department, contributing to strategic and tactical asset allocation and chairing the investment committee.

Seymour's prior experience includes positions at HSBC and Morgan Stanley as an equity sell-side analyst, specializing in European integrated oil and gas companies. He began his career at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, where he published several works on crude oil and oil product markets. He holds the CFA designation and earned a Master’s degree in Development Economics from London University.123