Marie Diron Managing Director, Global Sovereign Risk Moody's Ratings

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. 

Marie 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. Marie received a MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge and graduated from the Ecole Centrale Paris.

Liam Gibbon Vice President – Government, Public and Regulatory Affairs Moody's

Liam is a Vice President – Senior Regulatory Officer in the Regulatory Affairs group within Government and Public Affairs. His role and remit includes the development of regulatory strategy, analysing and responding to proposed regulatory requirements affecting MIS and engagement with regulators on matters affecting credit rating agencies within Europe, Middle East and Africa. His expertise includes regulatory and political risk, policy development and legal analysis. Liam was previously an attorney at Norton Rose Fulbright (SA), Legal Counsel at South Africa’s Central Securities Depository as well as a Legal and Capital Markets Advisor at the Central Bank of Bahrain. Liam joined Moody’s in London in 2013. He holds, inter alia, the B.A. (Hons), LL.B and LLM (International Economic Law)degrees.

Aurelien Mali Vice President - Senior Credit Officer, Sovereign Risk Moody's Ratings

Aurélien Mali is currently Vice President Senior Credit Officer. He acts as the firm’s expert in Africa. His position is a combined lead analyst and analytical outreach/credit ambassador role. As a member of the Sovereign Risk Group since August 2002, he was involved in Moody’s sovereign ratings in Europe and the Middle East at the beginning of his career. Over the last 8 years, he has been at the forefront of Moody’s growing footprint in Africa. He has been sovereign lead or backup analyst for almost all sovereign issuers and multilateral development banks we rate in Africa. Aurelien was relocated to our Dubai office early 2013 from our London office. Aurelien manages a research programme that supports the development of Moody’s reputation for analytical insight and excellence. He also assumes a greater role in participating in regular Moody’s and third-party conferences on the continent, Africa-related investor briefings, and undertaking analytical outreach to inform and explain Moody’s credit judgments. Aurelien also supports other Moody’s franchises using his unique experience and visibility across multiple sectors and asset classes in the region. Finally, he remains the lead/backup sovereign analyst for few countries including Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola and South Africa. Aurélien holds a BSc in Economics and a postgraduate degree (DEA) in Money, Finance and Banking from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris.

Evan Wohlmann Vice President - Senior Credit Officer, Sovereign Risk Moody's Ratings

Evan is a Vice President - Senior Credit Officer working on sovereign ratings focused on Northern and Eastern Europe as well as the CIS. His portfolio has included the UK, Switzerland, Iceland, Hungary, Serbia, the Baltics, Ukraine and Moldova. Evan joined Moody’s in 2015 after a varied career in the UK public and private sector. Prior to starting at Moody’s, he spent five and half years working as an economist at the Bank of England, where his last role was an economic adviser in the External Monetary Policy Committee unit. 

He also worked as a financial economist in the Monetary Analysis division as well as in the bank resolution area working with other UK authorities to monitor and resolve financial institutions as part of the UK’s Resolution Regime. Before joining the Bank of England, he worked in corporate finance at KPMG focusing on debt advisory and mergers and acquisitions. He holds an MSc in Finance from Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain as well as an MComm in Economics from the University of Cape Town in South Africa.

Massimo Visconti Vice President - Senior Credit Officer/Manager Moody's Investors Service

In his capacity as Vice President – Senior Credit Officer, Massimo is responsible for a team of 9 analysts in the Sub-Sovereign Sector. The group oversees over 100 regional and local governments and government related issuers in 19 European countries including Italy, Germany. As a team leader with over 16 years of experience in the sector Massimo is a regular speaker at conferences and in the media. He acts as a chair for sub-sovereign rating committees and signs off the publications of analyses in the sub-sovereign team. He joined Moody´s in 2006.

Immediately prior to joining Moody’s, he was senior analyst in Natixis Corporate and Investment Bank in Paris, responsible for rating advisory in Italy.

From 2000 through to 2005 he gathered a wide international experience and expanded his portfolio including Regional and Local Governments as well as Government Related Issuers in various European countries in Standard & Poor’s. He was Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Milan in 2001-2005, teaching public finance and member of CRANEC (Research Centre For Economic Analysis). He is also author of a book on access to funding in transition economies (ISBN: 88-14-08985-X).

From 1998 through 2000 he had various positions in an Italian leading financial institution and beforehand was a financial controller in Reuters and HP.

He began his professional career after graduating twice, magna cum laude. He holds two degrees in Economics and in Political Sciences with majors in macroeconomics and international finance; was awarded as the best graduate in the whole faculty in 1996. Now he is an MBA candidate at Bocconi University in Milan. He is fluent in English, German And French.

Lisa Jaeger Vice President - Senior Analyst Moody's Ratings

Lisa Jaeger is a Vice President – Senior Analyst in Moody’s Corporate Finance Group based in Dubai. She is responsible for a diversified portfolio of issuers across the Middle East, Turkey and South Africa, including Investment Holding Companies and Conglomerates, Telecoms and Diversified Industrials. Lisa joined Moody’s in 2020 after spending 5 years at Goldman Sachs in London, where she was an Executive Director and senior credit risk manager, covering leveraged lending to corporates as well as real estate and structured finance lending and investing transactions. Prior to that, Lisa spent 6 years at J.P. Morgan in London, where she started her career with the bank’s credit risk graduate program in 2009, covering a wide range of different clients and products, including financial institutions, private equity sponsors and diversified investment grade and non-investment grade corporates. During her time at J.P. Morgan, she also spent one year in the leveraged finance origination team. Lisa holds a Master’s degree in Finance and Strategy from Sciences Po Paris. She speaks fluent English, German and French and is learning Arabic.