Anna Meisser is the head of financial and economic policy at the Swiss Union of Cities and Towns (SSV) and managing director of the subsection Cities and Towns Conference on Finance (KSFD). She is a political scientist with a master's degree from the University of Zurich and has previously worked in academia, as well as the private sector.

Marc Schulthess is currently Deputy Head of cosmofunding, the digital financing platform launched by Vontobel in 2018 . Cosmofunding connects institutional and professional borrowers, such as municipalities, cantons, and companies, with investors including pension funds and insurance companies, using a fully digital, execution-only platform . In his role, Schulthess contributes to the growth, product development, and strategic direction of the platform, particularly in the private debt and structured finance sectors.

Davide Caccia is the Chief Financial Officer of the City of Bellinzona, Switzerland, the capital of the Canton of Ticino, one of Switzerland’s 26 Cantons. The current City of Bellinzona was formed through the merger of 13 former municipalities in 2017, with the new City officially becoming operational in 2018. Prior to the merger, he served as CFO of the previous municipality of Bellinzona, from 2013 to 2017; during that time, he worked alongside the internal and external experts to prepare the birth of the new City of Bellinzona. His experience in the public sector began in 2000, when he briefly served as economist for the supervisory authority over the municipalities. He than served as Chief of Staff of one of the members of the Council of State of Ticino from 2001 to 2013. The first professional experience after graduating from the University of Fribourg in 1996, with a Master of Arts degree in Economic and Social sciences, brought him to the USA, working for ABB Power Transmission & Distribution Company Inc. He then worked for Siemens in Zurich and Prada Holding BV in Lugano, Switzerland.

Harald Sperlein is a Vice President (Senior Analyst) with Moody’s Ratings, based in Frankfurt. He is part of Moody’s Sovereign & Sub-Sovereign Group and serves as a lead analyst for European issuers across various countries. His focus is on Sub-Sovereign credits, including regional and local governments, as well as government-related issuers. Harald also contributes his extensive public finance experience to numerous research and publication projects. With more than twenty years of experience in the sector, he is a regular speaker at conferences and provides commentary on public finance issues in the media.

Before joining Moody’s in 2012, Harald held various analytical and managerial positions at KfW Group and Landesbank Baden-Württemberg, two of Germany’s leading public-sector financial institutions. As a credit analyst and rating advisor, he gained a wealth of experience and expanded his knowledge across multiple sectors, including corporate finance, financial institutions and government entities. Harald also spent several years with Standard & Poor’s, following his early career at Deloitte, one of the four major international auditing firms.

Harald holds a Master’s degree (Diplom-Volkswirt) in Economics from the University of Bamberg in Germany.

Christina Maria Sterr is an Assistant Vice President (Analyst) with Moody’s SubSovereign Group, based in Frankfurt. She is the lead analyst for a number of European subsovereigns, including regional and local governments and government-related issuers, covering Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. As a member of the SubSovereign Group, she also lends her public finance expertise to a number of research and publication projects.

Before joining Moody’s Sub-Sovereign Group in April 2022, Christina Maria held various analytical and managerial positions in the financial sector. She has an extensive experience from Deutsche Bank, HSBC, and Intesa Sanpaolo within the capital markets teams and as a credit analyst for banks, corporates and government related issuers. Prior to that, she had spent several years with Moody´s Financial Institutions Group. She has also participated in capital and debt structuring in collaboration with the DCM and M&A teams. Christina has a consolidated ESG experience having worked closely with issuers for product/project selection, and KPI selection.

Christina graduated in Engineering at the University of Munich and holds a Masters Degree in International Economics and Management at SDA Bocconi.