Ellen Carr

Ellen Carr is a principal and high yield bond portfolio manager at Barksdale Investment Management (BIM), a majority women-owned investment management firm focused on investment grade and high yield fixed income. Prior to joining BIM in 2013, Ellen spent 11 years at The Capital Group as a leveraged credit analyst and portfolio manager. Ellen is also an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School, where she teaches courses on the credit cycle, investment grade and high yield bonds, and cash flow forecasting. She is a regular contributor to the Financial Times, the co-author of a book on women in investment management, Undiversified: The Big Gender Short in Investment Management (published in 2021 by Columbia University Press), and the editor of The Credit Investor’s Handbook (published in January 2024 by Wiley). Ellen is a trustee of the National Public Radio Foundation, as well as a board member of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina and the UNC Asheville Foundation. She chairs the investment committee for both of these organizations. Ellen also manages a family foundation (carrfamilyfoundation.org) which awards college scholarships in rural communities. Ellen has an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.A. from Harvard, where she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Ellen splits her time among Asheville, rural Tennessee, and New York. She has one son, one cat, and two dogs