Mr. Safi is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in the London office, focusing on private secondary debt opportunities in European commercial real estate. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2013, he led the cross asset debt syndicate team at Societe Generale. He previously held senior positions at RBS, both on the public side, in the European asset-backed trading team, and on the private side, as head of continental European CMBS structuring. He has 20 years of investment and financial services experience and holds a master's degree in finance from the London School of Economics. He also has a statistics degree from ENSAE and an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique.