Petter Bryman is a Vice President with Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group, based in Frankfurt. He is the lead analyst for a number of European sovereigns, mainly in the Baltics and Central and Eastern Europe. Prior to joining Moody’s in February 2018, Petter served as a Desk Officer with the Budget Department of the Swedish Ministry of Finance for seven years, where he functioned as the lead analyst for fiscal policy across a number of different policy areas, including the public pensions system, social insurance, migration and integration policy as well as EU budget policy. Petter also previously worked on EU and international affairs at the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications as well as a political advisor at the European Parliament in Brussels and Strasbourg. Petter holds a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford and a Master in Public Administration from the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Martin Rast is a Senior Credit Officer with Moody’s Structured Finance Group in London. He joined Moody’s in 2005 and originally was a member of both the Covered Bonds and the SIV team. Martin is lead analyst for several European covered bonds with a focus on German Pfandbriefe. Prior to joining Moody’s, Martin worked for HypoVereinsbank in several roles, including its securitisation department. Martin holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Munich (Germany). His PhD thesis was on numerical optimisation in neural networks.