Sean Marion Managing Director, Structured Finance Moody’s Ratings

Sean Marion heads up Moody’s EMEA Structured Finance Group, based in London. He is responsible for overseeing both primary issuance and surveillance functions for Consumer Assets, Corporate Assets and Covered Bonds, with teams based in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid and Milan.

Prior to joining the Structured Finance Group he was a London-based Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group, responsible for ratings coverage in the Nordics, Baltics, South-Eastern Europe and emerging markets in the Middle East and Africa.

Before relocating to London in 2011, Mr. Marion held various positions of progressive responsibility in Moody’s, including working in the firm’s offices in Mexico City and Toronto. Before joining Moody’s, Mr. Marion worked for The Economist Intelligence Unit, conducting research on macroeconomic and country risk. Mr. Marion holds graduate degrees in economics from the Université Paris I (Sorbonne) and the London School of Economics. He also holds an undergraduate degree from Bishop’s University, Canada. Mr. Marion is fluent in French and Spanish.

Laurie Mayers Associate Managing Director, European Banks Moody’s Investors Service

Laurie Mayers is an Associate Managing Director in Moody’s European Banking team. Laurie has responsibility for the analytical teams covering bank and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) in the UK and Ireland as well as for the global investment banks located in EMEA and for NBFIs in Western Europe. Leveraging her risk and regulatory background, she has provided leadership within the Financial Institutions business unit on the cross jurisdictional regulatory matters such as the implementation of Basel III, the BRRD and TLAC/MREL requirements, UK ring fencing and Brexit.

Prior to Moody’s, Laurie’s most recent role was Manager of the Capital Management Team at the UK Financial Services Authority (now the Prudential Regulation Authority), where she had responsibility for Pillar 2 capital assessments and firm-wide stress testing for the largest UK banks and building societies.

Laurie’s previous roles include Partner, Risk and Regulatory Advisory, Ernst & Young, Group Head of Basel 2 and a member of the Group Risk Executive Team at RBS, Global Head of Counterparty Credit Risk at RBS and previously, Principal and EMEA Head of Credit for Morgan Stanley International. Laurie began her career at as a staff economist at the New York Mercantile Exchange , and subsequently worked as a lending officer in the Commodity Finance Division at Chase Manhattan Bank following completion of their credit analyst training programme.

Laurie holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs (with a specialisation in International Economics) from Columbia University SIPA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Economy from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Roselyne Renel Group Chief Credit Officer Lloyds Banking Group

Roselyne Renel joined Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) in February 2020 as Group Chief Credit Officer with direct responsibility for credit risk globally across all businesses of the Group.

Before this appointment, she spent 6 years at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), initially as the Group Chief Credit Officer, and subsequently led the establishment of SCB’s Enterprise Risk Management which specifically addressed several challenges, including the need to emphasise the interconnectedness across risk verticals and correlation of financial and non-financial risk types as well as resetting of business risk appetite boundaries.  She also held the position of delegated Senior Management Function (SMF) under the Prudential Regulatory Authority’s (PRA) regime for Model Risk and Stress Testing.

Prior to SCB, Ms Renel spent two and half years at Standard Bank of South Africa as Chief Risk Officer for the investment banking division and just over 16 years at Deutsche Bank where she held various senior roles including Chief Credit Officer for Emerging Markets and the Global Markets and Global Banking divisions.

She is a seasoned financial services executive with deep domain expertise managing risk across a broad range of asset classes, products and client segments.  She is highly skilled in credit, market, liquidity and strategic risks, both in developed and emerging markets, across a wide range of banking and financial services sectors.

Ms Renel is a member of the Supervisory Board of Eurex Clearing AG (Deutsche Bourse Group), and also chairs its Risk Committee.

She is passionate in the issues of women, girls and the underprivileged and is actively involved in championing and raising awareness of these topics.

John Hourican CEO NewDay

John Hourican is currently CEO of NewDay Limited, a Board member of UK Finance and Board member of Atradius Crédito y Caución S.A. de Seguros y Reaseguros. He was Group Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Cyprus from 2013 to 2019 and Chief Executive of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s (RBS) Investment Bank (Markets & International Banking) from 2008 to 2013. Between 2007 and 2008, he served on behalf of a consortium of banks (RBS, Fortis and Santander) as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Management Board of ABN AMRO Group. He joined RBS in 1997 as a leveraged finance banker. John held various senior positions in RBS’swholesale banking division, including on the division’s Board as Finance Director and Chief Operating Officer. He also an the bank’s leveraged finance business in Europe and Asia. He started his career at Price Waterhouse here he held various Corporate Finance and Audit roles in Dublin, London and Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. John graduated in Economics and Sociology from the National University of Ireland and in Accounting from Dublin City University.

Evan Wohlmann Vice President - Senior Credit Officer, Sovereign Risk Moody's Investors Service

Evan is responsible for a portfolio of credits in Europe and the CIS that includes the United Kingdom, Russia and Ukraine; he has previously worked on European countries including Portugal, Hungary, Iceland and Israel. Evan joined Moody’s in 2015 after a varied career in the UK public and private sector.

Prior to starting at Moody’s, he spent five and half years working as an economist at the Bank of England, where his last role was an economic adviser in the External Monetary Policy Committee unit. He also worked as a financial economist in the Monetary Analysis division as well as in the bank resolution area working with other UK authorities to monitor and resolve financial institutions as part of the UK’s Resolution Regime. Before joining the Bank of England, he worked in corporate finance at KPMG focusing on debt advisory and mergers and acquisitions.

He holds an MSc in Finance from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain as well as an MComm in Economics from the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Simon Ainsworth Associate Managing Director Moody's Investors Service

Simon Ainsworth, who is based in London, is an Associate Managing Director responsible for the analytical teams maintaining ratings on Nordic and Baltic banks and on a range of European insurance companies.

Simon previously served as a Group Credit Officer. In that role he carried responsibility for monitoring ratings quality as well as assisting in the development and implementation of rating methodologies and practices applied to rated financial institutions within the EMEA region.

Simon joined Moody’s in March 2014 following sixteen years at the Bank of England.

At the Bank, he worked in a variety of roles primarily in its financial markets and banking operation divisions; as well as working on a variety of financial risk and crisis related issues. This included the resolution of failed banks, as well as responsibility for the risk management framework applied to collateral accepted in the Bank’s sterling market operations. Simon graduated from the University of Durham in 1998, having studied Economics and Politics. He is based in London.

Tamiko Bayliss Head of Banking Capital Policy Division Bank of England

Tamiko heads up the Banking Capital Policy Division in the Prudential Policy Directorate at the Bank of England.

Before taking up this role, Tamiko worked for Te Pūtea Matua - the Reserve Bank of New Zealand - and Te Tai Ōhanga - The Treasury New Zealand - as director of the review of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act, acting director of economic systems and as a principal adviser on macroeconomic policy.

Prior to living in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Tamiko was a senior manager in Banking Policy where she led the Pillar 2, credit and operational risk policy teams. Tamiko has also worked as a technical specialist within policy at the Bank and at the FSA. Before joining the FSA as an economist, she worked as a macroeconomist and currency strategist at Commerzbank in London.

Dan Fairclough Group Treasurer Barclays

Dan is responsible for all areas of Barclays' Treasury activities including oversight of the Group's capital and funding position, the investment of the Group's liquidity portfolio and its structural hedging activities.  Dan also provides Treasury and prudential input into the Group's work on digital currencies.

Dan has held a number of previous Treasury roles including Head of Group Balance Sheet Management and Head of Group Capital.  Dan was also Treasurer of Barclays "non ring fenced" bank and international operations through the covid stress period.

Prior to working in Treasury, Dan spent over 15 years in Barclays' investment bank.  Roles in this period included Head of UK and Ireland Financial Institutions and Head of Australia and New Zealand Financial Institutions.  Dan has a background in capital structuring and was involved in the early development of both hybrid capital securities and contingent capital securities.

Dan started his career in the UK regulatory sector and spent periods supervising European and Japanese banks and securities firms at the PRA, a predecessor regulator to the Bank of England.

Dan is married with 2 children and lives in Bristol.  He enjoys the outdoors and is a keen long distance runner, surfer, dog walker and sandcastle builder.

Donal Quaid Group Treasurer NatWest

Donal is Treasurer of NatWest Group with responsibility for all aspects of Treasury, and the Group balance sheet. Donal joined the Treasury function in 2012 as Head of Derivatives & FX and was the Head of Treasury Markets before taking over as Group Treasurer in December 2019. Donal has over 20 years experience in capital markets across various Treasury, trading and risk management leadership roles. 

Donal holds an Executive MBA from London Business School; a Master of Science in Investment & Treasury and a Bachelor of Business Studies degree from Dublin City University. Donal is also a CFA charterholder. Donal is a member of the Bank of England SONIA Stakeholder Advisory Group and he sits on the Advisory Council of the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Standards Board (FMSB).

Alexis Hamar Senior Director - Senior Strategist Moody’s Analytics

Alexis is a Director in the Moody’s Analytics Portfolio Product Management team. 

With a technical post degree in economics from the University of Panthéon-Assas in Paris, Alexis has 15+ years’ experience in risk management and valuation, having been working in sales, pre-sales, product, project management & strategy roles across various environments (banks, consultancy and software houses).

Prior to his current role at Moody’s Analytics, Alexis was leading sales and pre-sales for the French speaking region at Numerix, addressing derivatives pricing, market & counterparty risks as well as Insurance ALM risks solutions spanning both sell and buy side segments. In addition to this responsibility, Alexis also oversaw regulation topics (Basel III, FRTB, EMIR, Solvency 2), working closely with Quantitative Research and Product Management teams in order to foster both development and new generation of the Numerix Solutions. Previously and in particular, Alexis spent 7 years as a Portfolio Management & Valuation Sales Specialist at Moody’s Analytics, focusing on the Portfolio IP content across the EMEA Region. Alexis also worked at various consultancy and software companies, implementing and designing risk solutions for several major financial institutions.

Carola Schuler Managing Director, EMEA Banking Moody's Investors Service

Carola Schuler is a Managing Director in the Europe, Middle East and Africa banking team, based in Frankfurt. In this capacity, she is responsible for Moody’s analytical teams that rate banks primarily in the UK, the Eurozone and Central and Eastern Europe as well as non-bank financial companies across Europe. Carola has extensive experience in credit analysis and managing credit professionals.

Furthermore, Carola plays a leading role in Moody’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) integration efforts. Moody’s is committed to incorporating ESG risks into its credit analysis and Carola is one of Moody’s global coordinators of ESG analytical, research and outreach initiatives for financial institutions. 

Prior to joining Moody’s in 2008, Carola was a Director at the credit risk management division of Deutsche Bank where she worked in a number of different analytical and managerial functions in Germany and abroad, covering corporate finance, leveraged finance, financial institutions and sovereign risk across Europe, including time spent in Brussels (Belgium).

Carola has a double German-French Diploma in Business Administration from Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes (HTW), Saarbrücken /Germany and the University of Metz/ France.

Angela Brown Managing Director, Global Head of Product – ESG Moody's Analytics

Angela Brown joined Moody’s in October of 2019 and serves as the Head of Product for Moody’s newly formed ESG Solutions Group. Angela is a seasoned veteran of product management and strategy in the financial services industry working across a broad range of solutions including data, analytics, research and platform tools. In her new role she is responsible for bringing together capabilities from across the company to deliver a comprehensive and integrated suite of ESG and Sustainable Finance solutions.

Lucia Lopez Vice President – Senior Credit Officer, ESG Moody's Investors Service

Lucia Lopez is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer in Moody’s Environmental, Social and Governance group. In her role, Lucia contributes on all aspects to systematically and transparently incorporate ESG considerations into its ratings. Lucia brings multi-disciplinary expertise in broader ESG issues through past positions as a corporate credit analyst and a banker.

Lucia frequently represents the firm as a speaker through conversations with investors, policymakers and other market participants around the world. Before moving to the ESG team, Lucia was a lead analyst in the EMEA Corporate Finance Group since 2018. Prior to Moody’s, Lucia worked for over 15 years at a number of banks including Deutsche Bank and Barclays as a senior credit officer specializing in leverage finance and natural resources.

Lucia holds a Masters in European Law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Antonios Kastanas Senior Director Moody's Analytics

Antonios is a Senior Director in the Banking strategy group, focusing on market development for banking solutions. Previously with the Moody’s Analytics EMEA advisory team, he has led engagements on IFRS9 provisioning, portfolio modelling and stress testing among others.

Prior to joining Moody’s he was helping clients improve and develop their risk and capital management capabilities as part of the EY Financial Services advisory practice in the UK, after a number of years in quantitative and analytics leadership roles in banking.

Antonios holds a Masters in Economics and Finance with focus in Econometrics from Warwick Business School and an Economics honours degree from Bradford University.

Tamiko Bayliss Head of Banking Capital Policy Division Bank of England

Tamiko heads up the Banking Capital Policy Division in the Prudential Policy Directorate at the Bank of England.

Before taking up this role, Tamiko worked for Te Pūtea Matua - the Reserve Bank of New Zealand - and Te Tai Ōhanga - The Treasury New Zealand - as director of the review of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand Act, acting director of economic systems and as a principal adviser on macroeconomic policy.

Prior to living in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Tamiko was a senior manager in Banking Policy where she led the Pillar 2, credit and operational risk policy teams. Tamiko has also worked as a technical specialist within policy at the Bank and at the FSA. Before joining the FSA as an economist, she worked as a macroeconomist and currency strategist at Commerzbank in London.

Roselyne Renel Group Chief Credit Officer Lloyds Banking Group

Roselyne Renel joined Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) in February 2020 as Group Chief Credit Officer with direct responsibility for credit risk globally across all businesses of the Group.

Before this appointment, she spent 6 years at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), initially as the Group Chief Credit Officer, and subsequently led the establishment of SCB’s Enterprise Risk Management which specifically addressed several challenges, including the need to emphasise the interconnectedness across risk verticals and correlation of financial and non-financial risk types as well as resetting of business risk appetite boundaries.  She also held the position of delegated Senior Management Function (SMF) under the Prudential Regulatory Authority’s (PRA) regime for Model Risk and Stress Testing.

Prior to SCB, Ms Renel spent two and half years at Standard Bank of South Africa as Chief Risk Officer for the investment banking division and just over 16 years at Deutsche Bank where she held various senior roles including Chief Credit Officer for Emerging Markets and the Global Markets and Global Banking divisions.

She is a seasoned financial services executive with deep domain expertise managing risk across a broad range of asset classes, products and client segments.  She is highly skilled in credit, market, liquidity and strategic risks, both in developed and emerging markets, across a wide range of banking and financial services sectors.

Ms Renel is a member of the Supervisory Board of Eurex Clearing AG (Deutsche Bourse Group), and also chairs its Risk Committee.

She is passionate in the issues of women, girls and the underprivileged and is actively involved in championing and raising awareness of these topics.

John Hourican CEO NewDay

John Hourican is currently CEO of NewDay Limited, a Board member of UK Finance and Board member of Atradius Crédito y Caución S.A. de Seguros y Reaseguros. He was Group Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Cyprus from 2013 to 2019 and Chief Executive of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s (RBS) Investment Bank (Markets & International Banking) from 2008 to 2013. Between 2007 and 2008, he served on behalf of a consortium of banks (RBS, Fortis and Santander) as Chief Financial Officer and member of the Management Board of ABN AMRO Group. He joined RBS in 1997 as a leveraged finance banker. John held various senior positions in RBS’swholesale banking division, including on the division’s Board as Finance Director and Chief Operating Officer. He also an the bank’s leveraged finance business in Europe and Asia. He started his career at Price Waterhouse here he held various Corporate Finance and Audit roles in Dublin, London and Hong Kong. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. John graduated in Economics and Sociology from the National University of Ireland and in Accounting from Dublin City University.

Donal Quaid Group Treasurer NatWest

Donal is Treasurer of NatWest Group with responsibility for all aspects of Treasury, and the Group balance sheet. Donal joined the Treasury function in 2012 as Head of Derivatives & FX and was the Head of Treasury Markets before taking over as Group Treasurer in December 2019. Donal has over 20 years experience in capital markets across various Treasury, trading and risk management leadership roles. 

Donal holds an Executive MBA from London Business School; a Master of Science in Investment & Treasury and a Bachelor of Business Studies degree from Dublin City University. Donal is also a CFA charterholder. Donal is a member of the Bank of England SONIA Stakeholder Advisory Group and he sits on the Advisory Council of the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Standards Board (FMSB).

Dan Fairclough Group Treasurer Barclays

Dan is responsible for all areas of Barclays' Treasury activities including oversight of the Group's capital and funding position, the investment of the Group's liquidity portfolio and its structural hedging activities.  Dan also provides Treasury and prudential input into the Group's work on digital currencies.

Dan has held a number of previous Treasury roles including Head of Group Balance Sheet Management and Head of Group Capital.  Dan was also Treasurer of Barclays "non ring fenced" bank and international operations through the covid stress period.

Prior to working in Treasury, Dan spent over 15 years in Barclays' investment bank.  Roles in this period included Head of UK and Ireland Financial Institutions and Head of Australia and New Zealand Financial Institutions.  Dan has a background in capital structuring and was involved in the early development of both hybrid capital securities and contingent capital securities.

Dan started his career in the UK regulatory sector and spent periods supervising European and Japanese banks and securities firms at the PRA, a predecessor regulator to the Bank of England.

Dan is married with 2 children and lives in Bristol.  He enjoys the outdoors and is a keen long distance runner, surfer, dog walker and sandcastle builder.

Sean Marion Managing Director, Structured Finance Moody’s Ratings

Sean Marion heads up Moody’s EMEA Structured Finance Group, based in London. He is responsible for overseeing both primary issuance and surveillance functions for Consumer Assets, Corporate Assets and Covered Bonds, with teams based in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid and Milan.

Prior to joining the Structured Finance Group he was a London-based Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group, responsible for ratings coverage in the Nordics, Baltics, South-Eastern Europe and emerging markets in the Middle East and Africa.

Before relocating to London in 2011, Mr. Marion held various positions of progressive responsibility in Moody’s, including working in the firm’s offices in Mexico City and Toronto. Before joining Moody’s, Mr. Marion worked for The Economist Intelligence Unit, conducting research on macroeconomic and country risk. Mr. Marion holds graduate degrees in economics from the Université Paris I (Sorbonne) and the London School of Economics. He also holds an undergraduate degree from Bishop’s University, Canada. Mr. Marion is fluent in French and Spanish.

Carola Schuler Managing Director, EMEA Banking Moody's Investors Service

Carola Schuler is a Managing Director in the Europe, Middle East and Africa banking team, based in Frankfurt. In this capacity, she is responsible for Moody’s analytical teams that rate banks primarily in the UK, the Eurozone and Central and Eastern Europe as well as non-bank financial companies across Europe. Carola has extensive experience in credit analysis and managing credit professionals.

Furthermore, Carola plays a leading role in Moody’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) integration efforts. Moody’s is committed to incorporating ESG risks into its credit analysis and Carola is one of Moody’s global coordinators of ESG analytical, research and outreach initiatives for financial institutions. 

Prior to joining Moody’s in 2008, Carola was a Director at the credit risk management division of Deutsche Bank where she worked in a number of different analytical and managerial functions in Germany and abroad, covering corporate finance, leveraged finance, financial institutions and sovereign risk across Europe, including time spent in Brussels (Belgium).

Carola has a double German-French Diploma in Business Administration from Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft des Saarlandes (HTW), Saarbrücken /Germany and the University of Metz/ France.

Laurie Mayers Associate Managing Director, European Banks Moody’s Investors Service

Laurie Mayers is an Associate Managing Director in Moody’s European Banking team. Laurie has responsibility for the analytical teams covering bank and non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) in the UK and Ireland as well as for the global investment banks located in EMEA and for NBFIs in Western Europe. Leveraging her risk and regulatory background, she has provided leadership within the Financial Institutions business unit on the cross jurisdictional regulatory matters such as the implementation of Basel III, the BRRD and TLAC/MREL requirements, UK ring fencing and Brexit.

Prior to Moody’s, Laurie’s most recent role was Manager of the Capital Management Team at the UK Financial Services Authority (now the Prudential Regulation Authority), where she had responsibility for Pillar 2 capital assessments and firm-wide stress testing for the largest UK banks and building societies.

Laurie’s previous roles include Partner, Risk and Regulatory Advisory, Ernst & Young, Group Head of Basel 2 and a member of the Group Risk Executive Team at RBS, Global Head of Counterparty Credit Risk at RBS and previously, Principal and EMEA Head of Credit for Morgan Stanley International. Laurie began her career at as a staff economist at the New York Mercantile Exchange , and subsequently worked as a lending officer in the Commodity Finance Division at Chase Manhattan Bank following completion of their credit analyst training programme.

Laurie holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs (with a specialisation in International Economics) from Columbia University SIPA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Economy from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

Evan Wohlmann Vice President - Senior Credit Officer, Sovereign Risk Moody's Investors Service

Evan is responsible for a portfolio of credits in Europe and the CIS that includes the United Kingdom, Russia and Ukraine; he has previously worked on European countries including Portugal, Hungary, Iceland and Israel. Evan joined Moody’s in 2015 after a varied career in the UK public and private sector.

Prior to starting at Moody’s, he spent five and half years working as an economist at the Bank of England, where his last role was an economic adviser in the External Monetary Policy Committee unit. He also worked as a financial economist in the Monetary Analysis division as well as in the bank resolution area working with other UK authorities to monitor and resolve financial institutions as part of the UK’s Resolution Regime. Before joining the Bank of England, he worked in corporate finance at KPMG focusing on debt advisory and mergers and acquisitions.

He holds an MSc in Finance from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain as well as an MComm in Economics from the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Simon Ainsworth Associate Managing Director, EMEA Banking Moody's Investors Service

Simon Ainsworth, who is based in London, is an Associate Managing Director responsible for the analytical teams maintaining ratings on Nordic and Baltic banks and on a range of European insurance companies.

Simon previously served as a Group Credit Officer. In that role he carried responsibility for monitoring ratings quality as well as assisting in the development and implementation of rating methodologies and practices applied to rated financial institutions within the EMEA region.

Simon joined Moody’s in March 2014 following sixteen years at the Bank of England.

At the Bank, he worked in a variety of roles primarily in its financial markets and banking operation divisions; as well as working on a variety of financial risk and crisis related issues. This included the resolution of failed banks, as well as responsibility for the risk management framework applied to collateral accepted in the Bank’s sterling market operations.Simon graduated from the University of Durham in 1998, having studied Economics and Politics. He is based in London.

Alexis Hamar Senior Director - Senior Strategist Moody’s Analytics

Alexis is a Director in the Moody’s Analytics Portfolio Product Management team. 

With a technical post degree in economics from the University of Panthéon-Assas in Paris, Alexis has 15+ years’ experience in risk management and valuation, having been working in sales, pre-sales, product, project management & strategy roles across various environments (banks, consultancy and software houses).

Prior to his current role at Moody’s Analytics, Alexis was leading sales and pre-sales for the French speaking region at Numerix, addressing derivatives pricing, market & counterparty risks as well as Insurance ALM risks solutions spanning both sell and buy side segments. In addition to this responsibility, Alexis also oversaw regulation topics (Basel III, FRTB, EMIR, Solvency 2), working closely with Quantitative Research and Product Management teams in order to foster both development and new generation of the Numerix Solutions. Previously and in particular, Alexis spent 7 years as a Portfolio Management & Valuation Sales Specialist at Moody’s Analytics, focusing on the Portfolio IP content across the EMEA Region. Alexis also worked at various consultancy and software companies, implementing and designing risk solutions for several major financial institutions.

Angela Brown Managing Director, Global Head of Product – ESG Moody's Analytics

Angela Brown joined Moody’s in October of 2019 and serves as the Head of Product for Moody’s newly formed ESG Solutions Group. Angela is a seasoned veteran of product management and strategy in the financial services industry working across a broad range of solutions including data, analytics, research and platform tools. In her new role she is responsible for bringing together capabilities from across the company to deliver a comprehensive and integrated suite of ESG and Sustainable Finance solutions.

Lucia Lopez Vice President – Senior Credit Officer, ESG Moody's Investors Service

Lucia Lopez is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer in Moody’s Environmental, Social and Governance group. In her role, Lucia contributes on all aspects to systematically and transparently incorporate ESG considerations into its ratings. Lucia brings multi-disciplinary expertise in broader ESG issues through past positions as a corporate credit analyst and a banker.

Lucia frequently represents the firm as a speaker through conversations with investors, policymakers and other market participants around the world. Before moving to the ESG team, Lucia was a lead analyst in the EMEA Corporate Finance Group since 2018. Prior to Moody’s, Lucia worked for over 15 years at a number of banks including Deutsche Bank and Barclays as a senior credit officer specializing in leverage finance and natural resources.

Lucia holds a Masters in European Law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Antonios Kastanas Senior Director Moody's Analytics

Antonios is a Senior Director in the Banking strategy group, focusing on market development for banking solutions. Previously with the Moody’s Analytics EMEA advisory team, he has led engagements on IFRS9 provisioning, portfolio modelling and stress testing among others.

Prior to joining Moody’s he was helping clients improve and develop their risk and capital management capabilities as part of the EY Financial Services advisory practice in the UK, after a number of years in quantitative and analytics leadership roles in banking.

Antonios holds a Masters in Economics and Finance with focus in Econometrics from Warwick Business School and an Economics honours degree from Bradford University.