Energy supply disruptions pose difficult policy trade-offs among oil importing sovereigns but represent an opportunity for oil-exporters to reduce carbon transition risk over the longer term. Higher interest rates and capital market disruptions further complicate the operating environment for corporates and financial institutions.
- How solid are oil importers’ policy buffers to manage fiscal, liquidity and social challenges?
- What are the incentives and prospects for oil exporters’ diversification efforts?
- How resilient are banks and corporate issuers to rising interest rates and debt capital market volatility?
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SpeakersElisa Parisi-Capone Vice President, Sovereign Risk Moody's Ratings
Nitish Bhojnagarwala Executive Director, Financial Institutions Moody's Ratings
Alexander Perjéssy Senior Vice President, Sovereign Risk Moody's Ratings
Julien Haddad Associate Managing Director, Ratings and Research Support Moody's Ratings
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Elisa is Vice President – Senior Analyst at Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group in New York. She has lead and back-up analyst responsibilities for a number of North- and Sub-Saharan African sovereigns and supranationals. Her previous regional coverage also included sovereigns in Southeast Europe and in the CIS. Prior to joining Moody’s, Elisa spent two years at the Swiss Ministry of Finance in Berne, Switzerland, and seven years as Senior Analyst at Roubini Global Economic in New York covering the Euro area and Finance and Banking issues. Elisa holds an MA in Economics from New York University (NYU) and completed her undergraduate studies with a Lizentiat in Economics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Elisa speaks fluent German and Italian and proficient French
Nitish Bhojnagarwala is an Executive Director with Moody’s Financial Institutions Group. Based in Dubai, Nitish covers a portfolio of large conventional as well as Islamic financial institutions in the Middle East, Africa and Turkey.
Nitish joined Moody’s in 2011, and has led sukuk roundtables and conducted workshops on Banking and Islamic finance at various conferences in the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Nitish has also authored several research pieces, with a focus on regional banking, credit issues and issuer-in-depths for conventional as well as Islamic banks.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Nitish spent five years at Tamweel in the Treasury function. He has also worked for KPMG in the UAE, where he covered financial institutions. Nitish holds an MBA from S P Jain Institute of Management & Research, with a major in Finance (Investment Banking).
Alexander Perjéssy is Senior Vice President at the Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group.
Based in Dubai, he has lead analyst responsibilities for a number of sovereigns in the Middle East, including most of the Gulf Cooperation Council member states and several regional multilateral institutions.
Prior to joining Moody’s in November 2017, Alex worked for two years as economist at the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Before relocating to the Middle East, Alex spent more than 12 years covering macroeconomic developments and sovereign risk assessment in the emerging markets of the EMEA region for AllianceBernstein and The Rohatyn Group, both US-based asset management firms in New York, as well as for Goldman Sachs in London.
Alex holds an MA in Economics from the University of Maryland and a BA in Economics from Middlebury College.
Julien Haddad is an Associate Managing Director in RRS EMEA. He manages the Ratings Associates supporting FIG, Sovereign and Sub-sovereign teams in EMEA.
Prior to that, he was a Vice President – Senior Analyst in Moody’s EMEA Corporate Finance Group based in Dubai. He was primarily covering a portfolio of oil and gas, chemicals, real estate and investment holding companies located in the GCC, with a particular focus on Saudi Arabia.
Julien holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance from the University of Lyon, France and a Master’s degree in Management, Finance and International Business from the University of Bergamo, Italy.