Masterclasses for MSc Finance and cognate students

SOAS School of Finance and Management is delighted to host Marie Diron, Managing Director and Head of Sovereign Risk at Moody’s Ratings, who is generously running three masterclasses for MSc Finance and cognate students. 

Two sessions feature technical details of the ratings process with cases and are offered in a module on Risk Management. An additional session focussing on sovereign ratings for emerging markets will run in the Emerging Markets class.

Marie Diron is global head of Moody’s Sovereign and Sub-Sovereign Risk Group, with responsibility for credit ratings on countries, regional and local governments, public sector entities and multilateral development banks. Marie is also Moody’s Investors Service lead coordinator on ESG monitoring and integration across asset classes.

She has worked in various functions at Moody’s in the Sovereign Risk Group and (then) Credit Policy. In particular, she was lead sovereign analyst for a number of Asia Pacific credits including Australia, China, India and some frontier market sovereigns. She then managed the Asia Pacific sovereign team, before expanding her responsibilities to today’s global role. Previously, in Credit Policy, Marie co-ordinated Moody’s Global Macro Outlook and other credit research.

Marie was previously Director at Oxford Economics, leading the company’s forecasting and scenario analysis service to financial sector and corporate clients, after a number of years at the European Central Bank and Brevan Howard LLP. She received a MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge and graduated from the Ecole Centrale Paris.

To confirm a place, please email jaideep.oberoi@soas.ac.uk