Elena Duggar Chief Credit Officer - Americas, Managing Director, Credit Strategy and Guidance Moody's Ratings

Elena Duggar is Moody’s Chief Credit Officer for the Americas, and a Managing Director in the Credit Strategy & Research team. Elena is also the Chair of Moody’s Macroeconomic Board, which sets the global macroeconomic forecasts underpinning Moody’s universe of ratings.

 In her role leading the North and Latin America Credit Strategy & Research teams and the Global Macroeconomic Research team, Elena is responsible for forming house views on emerging risks, driving cross-functional alignment on key credit factors, coordinating rating approach across sectors in the Americas, and maintaining rigor in analytic frameworks. 

Elena leads major cross-sector outreach and research initiatives, such as Moody’s Global Credit Conditions Outlook, Global Macroeconomic Outlook, Debt after COVID and Global Trade Monitor, along with thematic research on macro, sovereign, demographics and financial risk topics. Elena represents Moody’s at the IIF Committee for Sovereign Risk Management and the IIF Principles Consultative Group for the Principles for Stable Capital Flows and Fair Debt Restructuring. 

Elena has served as Chair of Moody’s Macroeconomic Board since 2016 and prior to that served as Moody’s Group Credit Officer for Sovereign Risk, covering the global sovereign ratings portfolio. She is a globally-recognized expert on sovereign defaults and the author of market leading sovereign credit research, including Moody’s Sovereign Defaults series. For example, her research on the role of holdouts in sovereign debt restructurings was cited as expert evidence in the landmark 2015 US Supreme Court case on Argentina. Elena regularly represents Moody’s macro and credit views with external audiences, including senior policymakers, international organizations such as the UN, IMF and IIF, think tanks, academia, regulators and investors. Elena’s research is frequently cited in the WSJ, the FT, Bloomberg, Reuters and leading financial media. 

Elena joined Moody’s in 2007 and previously was an Economist at the IMF. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Bates College and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Christina Padgett Associate Managing Director, Corporate Finance Moody's Ratings

Christina Padgett is an Associate Managing Director in Moody’s Corporate Finance Group and leads the Leveraged Finance Research and Analytics team and Private Credit research. She spearheads in-depth, cross-team research on credit trends in the leveraged finance market and private equity. Christina also remains very focused on facilitating global private credit research. She brings an established multi-cycle expertise in credit markets to her research role, which is regularly informed by meetings with investors, regulators, alternative asset managers, bankers, media and others. In addition, as rating chair for speculative grade rating committees, she participates in key credit discussions spanning a broad range of industries within Moody’s rated universe.

Before joining Moody’s, Christina was a vice president at JPMorgan Chase in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group. Prior to her investment banking role, Christina completed the bank’s Credit Training program and worked in Europe Corporate Finance and Credit Audit. She received a Master in International Political Economy from Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs and a B.A. in History from William Smith College.

Madhavi Bokil Senior Vice President, Credit Strategy and Guidance Moody's Ratings

Madhavi Bokil is a Senior Vice President, heading the Macro Research Team of the Credit Strategy and Standards Group. She is a member of Moody’s Macro Board and the lead author of Moody’s Global Macroeconomic Outlook.

Before joining Moody’s Ratings Madhavi held positions as Senior Economist at AIG and GE Capital, undertaking global macroeconomic analysis, forecasting and CCAR stress testing. Prior to that she held a faculty position in the Department of Economics at Clark University, where she pursued research in and taught International Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics. She holds a BA in Economics from Fergusson College, Pune, India, a MA in Economics from the University of Mumbai, India and a PhD in International Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Claire Li Vice President - Senior Analyst, Credit Strategy and Guidance Moody's Ratings

Claire Li is a Vice President within Moody’s Credit Strategy and Research Group. Based in New York, she frequently publishes macro and thematic research and undertakes macroeconomic analysis and forecasting for G20 economies to support Moody’s Macroeconomic Board. Claire contributes to Moody’s annual sovereign default research and analyzes sovereign debt default and restructurings.

Claire joined Moody’s in 2015. Claire holds a M.A. in Economics from New York University, a B.A. in Economics from Fudan University, China, and B.S. in International Economics and Business from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands