Asad Farid

Associate Director - Thematics team
Berenberg

Asad Farid is Associate Director of the Thematics team at Berenberg, where he specializes in battery technology and its use in the automotive and the power sectors. Asad's research focuses on lithium, nickel, cobalt, chemicals, battery manufacturing, EVs and utilities. This includes both top down macro/sector analysis and bottom-up research on companies (public and private) which are impacted across the value chain. Prior to his current position he was an equity analyst in the oil & gas sector at Berenberg Bank, and a consultant for Google UK's Cambridge Global Consulting Project. Additionally, he served for two years as an equity analyst on the Mid cap Banks and Macroeconomics Team at AKD Securities, where he wrote detailed economic reports covering issues in Pakistan's economy and an Weekly Economic Outlook on fixed income, currencies and commodities. He holds a BSc in Economics from Lahore University of Management Sciences, and an MBA in Finance from the University of Cambridge.