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Managers

Lead Portfolio Manager:

Jesper Madsen, CFA
Portfolio Manager

Jesper Madsen, CFA, joined Matthews in 2004 and is currently a Portfolio Manager. Previously, he was an Analyst at Charter Equity Research and from 2002 to 2003, he worked with the Fixed Income group at Barclays Global Investors. Prior to that, Jesper was employed at Chemoil Corporation in oil-related sales. He has traveled extensively, including living and working in China. Jesper received a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of York in the United Kingdom. Jesper has been a Portfolio Manager of the Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund since the Fund’s inception in 2006.

Lead Manager
- Matthews Asia Pacific Equity
  Income Fund


Andrew T. Foster

Co-Portfolio Manager:

Andrew T. Foster
Acting Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager

Andrew Foster is acting Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at Matthews. As acting Chief Investment Officer, Andrew oversees the firm’s investment process and investment professionals. Andrew first joined Matthews in 1998 as a Research Analyst and left the firm in 2001 to attend graduate school. Upon completion of his M.B.A. in 2002, Andrew returned to Matthews in 2003. Prior to Matthews, he worked as a management consultant with A.T. Kearney’s Financial Institutions Group in Singapore from 1996 to 1998. Andrew received an A.B. in Public Policy and a secondary degree in Economics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from INSEAD in France. Andrew has been a Portfolio Manager of the Asian Growth and Income Fund since 2005, of the India Fund since the Fund’s inception in 2005, of the Asia Pacific Equity Income Fund since the Fund’s inception in 2006, and of the China Fund since 2008.

Lead Manager
- Matthews Asian Growth and
  Income Fund

- Matthews India Fund

Co-Manager
- Matthews Asia Pacific Equity
  Income Fund

- Matthews China Fund