Charlie Roth

Charlie Roth is a portfolio specialist for Thornburg Investment Management. He first joined Thornburg in 2013 and served for eight years as global markets editor, then rejoined in early 2025 as a portfolio specialist.

Prior to Thornburg, Charlie was an assistant managing editor at Dow Jones Newswires, the Wall Street Journal’s real-time financial news and analysis division, where he oversaw its bureaus in Latin America as well as the New York–based emerging markets group. He had previously served as a senior writer in the emerging markets group, bureau chief in Venezuela, and staff reporter in Malaysia. Charlies earned BA degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder and an MA from the Instituto Universitario de Desarrollo y Cooperación at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mali.