International Equities encompasses the firm’s equity operations in Europe and Asia. Our investment professionals benefit from resources tailored to capitalize on opportunities in international markets, with central operations, execution, data and technology teams in London and Hong Kong.
We bring together teams across Europe and Asia that share a fundamental research discipline while expressing conviction across different portfolio structures and time horizons.
Investment professionals
As of October 2026
Our investment teams bring deep company and industry expertise to markets around the world. Rigorous bottom-up research, developed through sustained coverage of the companies and sectors they know best, informs differentiated views and disciplined portfolio construction. Teams pursue these opportunities through market-neutral portfolios built around a range of strategies and holding periods.
International Equities is also the home to teams that deploy significant single-name capital, primarily in event-driven situations, risk arbitrage and high-conviction fundamental opportunities across Europe and Asia. We seek to understand companies’ ambitions and build lasting relationships with management teams. We aim to serve as strategic thought partners as they work to realize the full potential of their businesses and identify where our capital can help generate long-term value.
We recruit people who are talented and relentlessly curious, and we help them build careers. People join from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds, united by an appetite to learn and apply their knowledge to markets.
From their first day, new colleagues are immersed in a comprehensive training program covering the firm’s proprietary research tools, alternative data and risk management. Development continues through collaboration, coaching and learning from experienced investment professionals and external experts.
We believe in the power of the team. Individuals benefit from the collective knowledge within International Equities and throughout Citadel, and from exposure to colleagues with different investment styles, allowing us to connect the dots and better forecast markets.
We ask our colleagues what they need to be successful, then provide it to them. Backed by the full scale of Citadel, portfolio managers can build teams around the capabilities required to execute their investment process.
Few can rival our investment in technology, data and people. Investment professionals draw on internal research and analysis, dedicated specialists and a broad technology platform to inform their decisions.
We continuously look for ways to automate and outsource workflows, allowing investment professionals to focus on the highest-value tasks. Our risk-management infrastructure and quantitative capabilities help teams interpret market moves and deploy capital as opportunities evolve.
Nabeel Bhanji Head of International Equities
Nabeel Bhanji joined Citadel in 2025 as Head of Strategic Equity Investments. In 2026, he was appointed as Head of International Equities, combining the two businesses. He also serves on Citadel’s Portfolio Committee.
Prior to joining the firm, Nabeel was an Equity Partner at Elliott Investment Management, where he sat on the firm’s Global Investment Committee and was responsible for public equity and event-driven investing across a range of geographies. Nabeel began his career at Goldman Sachs’ U.K. M&A team before moving to the private equity firm Apax Partners. Nabeel is a member of the Aga Khan Development Network’s Endowment Committee and a Governor at London’s Westminster School. He was previously a board director of Toshiba Corporation.
Nabeel earned a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from Oxford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Sean Salji Senior Advisor
Sean Salji began his career at the firm in Citadel Global Equities in 2005. Rising to become one of our most successful portfolio managers, he became the regional head of our equities strategy in London from 2015 to 2017. In 2018, he returned to lead Surveyor Capital’s expansion in Europe until he became the Head of International Equities uniting the firm’s broader equities strategies outside of North America. In July 2023, Sean became a Senior Advisor to International Equities.
Prior to joining Citadel, Sean was Assistant Vice President for the research division at Merrill Lynch Europe.
Sean holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge.
