Ariane Ortiz-Bollin Vice President, Senior Credit Officer, Credit Strategy & Research Moody's Ratings

Ariane leads cross-sector analytic initiatives, strategic research and outreach covering Latin America. She chairs our Latin America Credit Council and works on credit strategy with senior leaders of Ratings & Research and other Credit Strategy & Standards functions within Moody’s. She is tasked with ensuring global analytical consistency with other regional credit strategy functions and foster collaboration across analytical teams. 

Before her current role, Ariane was part of the Global Emerging Markets team, responsible for generating house views and research, and hosted Moody’s Emerging Markets Decoded podcast. 

Ariane spent a decade as a sovereign analyst, managing a portfolio of sovereigns and multilateral development banks in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Mexico, Chile and the International Finance Corporation, leading the internal rating committee discussions for her portfolio of credits, country and region-specific publications, and meetings with government officials.

Before joining Moody’s in 2011, Ariane was a research analyst at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, prior to which she was a corporate credit analyst in Citi- Banamex in Mexico. 

Ariane graduated with Honors in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.

Christopher Bredholt Vice President - Senior Credit Officer, Infrastructure Finance, PPIF Moody's Investors Service

Christopher Bredholt is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer in Moody’s EMEA Infrastructure Finance team, based in London. He covers a diversified portfolio of mainly project finance issuers across sectors including renewables, oil & gas, transport, social infrastructure and digital infrastructure. Christopher has broad experience assessing complex structures and credit enhancement mechanisms for emerging market project financings. He represents the Infrastructure Finance team for Moody’s analytical activities in the African markets.

Christopher has published widely on trends in project finance and on the renewable energy sector, and contributed articles to major industry journals. He is frequently invited to represent Moody’s at industry conferences and regularly meets investors and intermediaries.

Moody’s has a leading global Infrastructure Finance franchise, rating some US$2 trillion of corporate and project finance securities, representing more than 90% of all public bonds issued globally in the sector. 180 analytical sector staff cover more than 1,700 infrastructure issuers globally. Moody’s EMEA team of 46 specialists is responsible for rating around 430 issuers. The rating agency covers more than 39,000 issuers and transactions.

Before joining Moody’s, Christopher worked for Oxara Energy Group in London and JPMorgan Asset Management in New York. At Oxara, he had responsibility for investment screening, valuation, asset management and project financing of renewable energy assets across Europe. At JPMorgan, he was an analyst on the over-the-counter fixed income derivatives desk.

Christopher holds a BSc in Economics (Finance) from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MPhil in International Development from the University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College), and is a CFA charterholder.

Cristiane Spercel Head of Projects & Infrastructure, Latin America Moody's Ratings

Cristiane is a Senior Vice President/Manager, based in Sao Paulo with management responsibility for the rating agency coverage of project finance, infrastructure and sub sovereign credits across Latin America. In her role, she oversees a team of analysts covering those sectors, developing research on sector trends and conducting outreach activities with key market participants. Cristiane has over fifteen years of experience in the financial services industry. Since she joined the firm in January 2007, Cristiane covered several infrastructure credits in the transportation, sanitation and electricity sectors and project finance transactions. Cristiane has also worked as a senior analyst with Moody's corporate finance team covering high yield and financially distressed issuers in the real estate, construction and transportation sectors until 2016.Before joining Moody's, Cristiane developed credit analysis at West lB and fixed income portfolio management activities at Bank Boston. Cristiane holds a Master's degree in Finance from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a MBA in Real Estate from the University of Sao Paulo.