Dietmar Hornung Associate Managing Director, Sovereign Risk Moody's Ratings

Dietmar Hornung, Associate Managing Director, leads the Sovereign Risk Group’s European team, covering the European countries and the European supranationals. Prior to his appointment as team leader, Dietmar was Moody’s lead analyst on a number of European sovereign credits, including Germany, France, Italy, Ireland, Russia, EU, EFSF and ESM.

Before joining Moody’s in 2007, Dietmar was Head of Emerging Market Research for DekaBank in Frankfurt.

Dietmar holds a Doctorate summa cum laude in Economics from Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. He received a Masters degree from Christian-Albrechts University in Kiel after studies in Kiel, at the University of Miami, and at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen.

Dietmar is a Certified EFFAS Financial Analyst (CEFA).

Perrine Bajolle Assistant Vice President - Analyst, Corporate Finance Moody's Ratings

Perrine is lead analyst in the high yield and leveraged finance franchise based in Frankfurt. She is currently responsible for a portfolio of companies focused primarily on the business and consumer service sector in EMEA. Prior roles at Moody’s included covering companies in the manufacturing industry, automobile manufacturers and European banks.

Prior joining Moody’s in 2014, Perrine worked in M&A advisory for Natixis Partners in Paris where she was covering the small and mid-cap corporate market in France.

Perrine holds a Master Degree from Dauphine University (Paris) and ESADE Business School (Barcelona).

Ana Silva Vice President - Senior Analyst, Corporate Finance Moody's Ratings

Ana Luz Silva Robles is a Vice President – Senior Analyst in Moody’s Corporate Finance Group. Based in Frankfurt, she is responsible for a portfolio of predominantly real estate issuers. Ana joined Moody’s in 2018 from Société Générale in Frankfurt, where she spent more than three years as a corporate credit analyst, covering large-cap and midcap names from the Real Estate, Chemicals and Healthcare industries. Prior to that, she spent nearly 2 years at Braskem Europe, as a credit risk manager of a wide customer base across diverse industries. Her career as credit analyst started in 2010 within the international corporate real estate arm of Commerzbank group in Mexico City and she was transferred to Germany in 2012 to oversee the Mexican commercial real estate portfolio. Ana has a Master’s degree in Finance from the Goethe University in Frankfurt and is a CFA Charter holder. 

Bernhard Held Vice President - Senior Credit Officer, EMEA Banking Moody's Ratings

Bernhard is lead analyst for a number of banks in Germany and Austria. 

Prior to joining Moody’s in 2014, he worked for Allianz SE as a Financial Analyst with firm-wide credit portfolio responsibilities. Prior to that, he was a Credit Risk Officer at EADS (now Airbus) and a Senior Risk Manager / Senior Analyst in Corporate and Structured Finance at LBBW in Germany and Luxembourg.

Bernhard is a CFA charter holder and has obtained the PRM designation. He holds a Master’s Degree in European Business Studies & Management from Otto-Friedrich University at Bamberg (Germany) and speaks German, English, Spanish and French.

Patrick Widmayer Vice President - Senior Credit Officer, Structured Finance Moody's Ratings

Patrick is a VP – Senior Credit Officer within Moody’s covered bond team. He

had initially joined Moody’s Frankfurt office as an CMBS analyst in the year 2006

and rejoined Moody’s in 2008 to work in the covered bond team. Between spells

at Moody’s Patrick worked as an asset manager at DekaBank in Frankfurt. Earlier

in his career he worked in the bank audit team of Ernst & Young.

Patrick studied Finance and Accounting at Frankfurt/Germany and

Southampton/UK University with the degree Diplom-Kaufmann. Patrick holds

a certificate as Financial Risk Manager (FRM) and is a Chartered Financial

Analyst (CFA).