Peter Bates is the portfolio manager of the Global Select Equity Strategy (marketed in Australia as Concentrated Global Equity) in the International Equity Division. He is a member of the Investment Advisory Committees of the Global Focused Growth Equity and Japan Equity Strategies. Peter is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and an executive vice president of T. Rowe Price International Ltd.

Peter’s investment experience began in 2001, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2004, beginning in the U.S. Equity Division as a research analyst covering environmental services, railroads, industrial companies, and agricultural equipment companies. Subsequently, he became portfolio manager of the Global Industrials Equity Strategy. Prior to T. Rowe Price, Peter was employed by Rent-A-Center as vice president of finance. 

Peter earned a B.B.A., magna cum laude, in business from Southern Methodist University and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, where he was selected to a management team for the Wharton Small-Cap Value Fund. Peter also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst^® designation.

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