Palaniappan Chidambaram joined Martin Currie as an investment analyst in 2007, after managing his personal venture-capital investment. He became a portfolio manager in 2008, since when he has managed our European portfolios. He was previously a senior analyst with Rabobank International's financial-markets research team in London, and before that led the South Asian telecommunications banking practice at ANZ Bank, based in Mumbai. Palaniappan started his career as a telecommunications analyst with Peregrine Capital in Mumbai. He holds a degree in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management. He is a chartered financial analyst and also a chartered market technician.