Nick Hill is a Managing Director and heads the Credit Strategy & Guidance function within the Credit Strategy & Standards division in Moody’s Ratings. 

Based in Paris, he joined Moody’s in March 2010, initially heading the France / BeNeLux banking team. 

Since then he has managed successively larger teams, led the global revision of Moody’s bank rating methodology, which was published in 2015, and latterly was co-head of the global banking team. 

Prior to joining Moody’s, Nick worked as a bank analyst in a variety of roles. These include banking supervision at the Bank of England and Financial Services Authority, where he began his career; sell-side equity research on French banks in a #1 ranked team at Morgan Stanley; rating UK and continental European banks at Standard & Poor’s; and providing balance sheet advice to financial institutions with RBS. 

A graduate of Christ’s College, University of Cambridge in the UK, Nick holds an MA in English, a diploma in French, and a postgraduate certificate in Finance from Birkbeck College, University of London.   

Matthieu Collette est Vice President-Analyste Senior au sein du Sovereign Risk Group de Moody’s Ratings et couvre un portefeuille composé d’emprunteurs publics locaux et de banques multilatérales de développement. Avant de rejoindre Moody’s, Matthieu était responsable des études économiques et financières de Finance Active-Altus Group, l’un des leaders français de la fintech. Matthieu a également été Senior advisor pour Cités et Gouvernements Locaux Unis (CGLU) et Régions de France. Tout au long de sa carrière, Matthieu a enseigné dans diverses institutions, notamment à l’Institut National des Etudes Territoriales (INET) et à l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP), ainsi qu’au Campus-AFD (Groupe Agence Française de Développement) et à l’Université de Strasbourg. Matthieu est titulaire d’un Master de l’Université de Paris 2, où il a débuté sa carrière dans l’enseignement et la recherche en économie financière.

Carole Gintz is an Associate Managing Director in the EMEA Structured Finance Group. Carole’s responsibilities include the new ratings activity for European Corporate Securitisation transactions. Carole manages a team of senior analysts based across various European countries. Carole’s team is responsible for the rating assignment of a wide range of newly issued transactions backed by corporate assets including CLOs, SME securitisations and ABCP. Prior to take the responsibility for the EMEA Corporate Securitisation team in 2016, Carole managed the rating surveillance activity of ABS in EMEA.

Carole is a member of the Moody’s Standing Committee on Rating Symbols and Definitions which is in charge of defining Moody’s various ratings symbols, rating scales and other ratings-related definitions. This appointment recognizes her extensive experience in the credit and rating process gained through the 20 years Carole’s has been with Moody’s.

Before joining Moody’s, Carole completed her Master in engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris. She also holds a master degree in Applied Mathematics from Université Paris Dauphine.

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.

Céline Chérubin is a senior credit officer in the EMEA Infrastructure Finance Group, based in Paris. She has responsibility for a portfolio of unregulated utilities in France, Belgium, Italy and the Czech Republic as well as water and waste management companies in France.

Céline has considerable experience of assessing utilities and infrastructure in Europe, with an in-depth knowledge of business models, strategies and stakeholders. She has a particular focus on the French market but also benefits from experience of a broad range of other jurisdictions.

Moody’s has a leading global Infrastructure Finance franchise, rating some US$2.8trillion of corporate and project finance securities. Our team of 148 analytical staff covers more than 2,700 public and private sector infrastructure issuers globally. Moody’s EMEA team of 48 infrastructure specialists is responsible for rating around 330 issuers with approximately US$756 billion in debt outstanding. Moody’s Investors Service covers a total of more than 35,000 issuers and structured finance transactions worldwide, representing more than US$73 trillion in rated debt.

Before joining Moody’s in April 2019, Céline worked for Infravia, a French infrastructure investment company, where she was responsible for investor relations and the fundraising of the fourth infrastructure fund. Prior to this, she had an extended career as a sell side equity analyst covering European utilities for more than 12 years. She has also taught classes in accounting, P&L diagnostics and cashflow analysis for the Société Française des Analystes Financiers.

Céline holds a degree in business administration (DESCAFF) from the Bordeaux Business School. She is fluent in English and French.

Amaya London is an Associate Vice President at Moody’s Rating specializing in sustainable bond issuances, ESG in agriculture, supply chains, water management, and human rights projects. She has contributed to over 250 Second Party Opinions. Her areas of expertise span sovereigns, real estate, local authorities, and industrial issuers, with a particular focus on agriculture, climate change adaptation, access to essential services, and other high-impact sustainability projects.

Amaya holds a Master’s Degree in International Economic and Investment Law from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She also has a Maitrise and a Bachelor’s Degree in International and European Law from the Panthéon Sorbonne University, France.

Vincent Gusdorf is an Associate Managing Director in the DeFi and Digital Assets team (DFDA), leading Moody’s blockchain technology research. Before joining the DFDA team, Vincent worked for the Innovation and Data Science team, managing several machine learning projects and defining the innovation roadmap. 

Vincent worked as a credit analyst for 16 years and covered investment grade and high-yield corporates. He also contributed to developing Moody’s cyber risk expertise in Europe. Before joining Moody’s, Vincent worked at Standard & Poor’s, Exane BNP Paribas, and Ernst and Young. 

Vincent is a CFA charter holder and holds a Master of Finance from Sciences Po Paris and a Master of Law from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas. He is a self-trained programmer and developed his blockchain and machine learning expertise by completing multiple online data science and cloud certifications. Vincent is also a Certified ScrumMaster and a PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).

Vice President -Senior Analyst, Financial Institutions Group, based in Paris. Roland is the sector lead for the French banking system, and covers a portfolio of banks in France and Benelux. Roland joined Moody’s in 2008, and has covered banks in multiple banking systems including France, the UK, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Israel and Norway. He has also been the sector lead for non-bank financial companies across Europe. Roland was involved in the global effort leading to the current global methodology on banks, which includes the introduction of the Loss Given Failure framework -a response to the shift in public policy toward implementation of resolution regimes. Roland started his career at HSBC.

Marie Fischer-Sabatié is a Senior Vice President in the Corporate Finance Group (CFG) team based in Paris. Marie has lead responsibility for a portfolio of European pharmaceutical companies and food retailers.

During her tenure at Moody’s, Marie has covered a number of sectors, including Consumer Packaged Goods, Shipping, Business Services across Europe, when she was based in Paris between 2001 and 2016, and Telecom and Mining in Latin America, when she was based in Mexico City between 2016 and 2020.

Prior to joining Moody’s in 2001, Marie worked at Santander in Chile and Crédit Lyonnais in New York. She is a graduate of ESCP (Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris).