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Shannon Kirwin is a associate director, fixed income strategies for Morningstar’s EMEA manager research team and is based in Munich. She covers mutual funds with an emphasis on fixed-income strategies.

Before joining the German investment research team in July 2013, she spent four years in Morningstar’s Chicago office, first as a software training manager and then as a mutual fund analyst covering fixed-income strategies in the American market.

Shannon holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining Morningstar in 2009, she spent a year at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China as a Fulbright fellow. She speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Patrick Ge is a senior manager research analyst for Morningstar Asia Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. He is based in Hong Kong and focuses on researching Asia and emerging-markets fixed-income strategies. He is also responsible for supporting the delivery of manager research services in Asia.

Before joining Morningstar in February 2019, Ge spent close to two years working for an investment consulting firm located in Toronto, providing institutional investment advisory services and manager research services focusing on target-date funds.

Ge holds a double degree in mathematics/business from the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.