David Damsgaard is an Executive Director of Morgan Stanley Investment Management and serves as the strategy head for Global Macro, Emerging Markets, and Sovereign Relative Value strategies within the Alternative Investment Partners Hedge Fund Solutions group. He joined the firm in 2019 and has 15 years of investment experience. Prior to joining the firm, David was a proprietary commodities trader at Marex Spectron. Previously, he was an Associate Portfolio Manager at Caxton Associates and an Associate Director for Macquarie Bank Limited managing a derivatives portfolio providing hedging solutions within agricultural products. David received a B.A. in economics from Yale University.