Margaret Stumpp (born 1952) is a senior vice president at

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, Inc. She is the first openly

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person out of over 60,000 employees in the firm. In February 2002, Stumpp transitioned at age 49 from male to female while simultaneously maintaining her position at Prudential Financial, where she functioned as Chief Investment Officer for Quantitative Management Associates - a wholly owned investment management subsidiary of Prudential. In addition to remaining in investment management, she also continued to be actively engaged in investment research and her work has appeared in a number of academic journals. These include the Financial Analyst's Journal,

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and the

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. Margaret received a BA in Economics from

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and Ph.D. in Economics from

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. Adam Geller of the

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chronicled her transition in an award-winning article entitled ''Call Me Maggie''. In addition to maintaining her professional career after changing genders she also made numerous presentations to corporate managers across the U.S., aimed at increasing the awareness and acceptance of

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people within the workplace.

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