In his role as Senior Director, Strategic Relationships and Sales Strategy for Moody’s ESG Solutions, Ben Boukhobza leads ESG Solutions’ relationships with internal and external partners and strategic client relationships, as well as driving the implementation of our sales strategy globally.

Prior to Moody’s ESG Solutions, Ben led Four Twenty Seven’s global sales effort after starting as head of sales for the UK. Prior to Four Twenty Seven, Ben spent nearly a decade in the Moody’s Investors Service Commercial Group, holding numerous roles with wide-ranging remits, including both internal and external-facing responsibilities in different parts of the group. This included roles that are client-facing and revenue-generating, operations-focused, and technology transformation-led, and have involved regulatory projects and building new teams. He has also managed KYC teams in Asia Pacific and Sales Support within the EMEA Relationship Management team.

Based in London, Brett is an Assistant Vice President in the Moody’s Talent Acquisition team where he manages the strategy and delivery of Moody’s campus recruiting efforts across the EMEA region.  He also has global responsibility for RE-IGNITE, Moody's initiative to support individuals looking to return to the workplace after a career break.  In his role, Brett partners with teams across Moody’s and external partners to attract and support diverse talent and position Moody’s as an employer of choice.

Prior to relocating to London, Brett held several roles with Moody’s in New York, most recently managing campus recruitment for the US.  Before joining Talent Acquisition, he was responsible for the event programming for Moody’s research clients in the US.

Brett is a founding Co-Chair of the Pride Business Resource Group (BRG) in New York and currently serves on the steering committee for the EMEA Pride BRG. Brett also formerly represented Moody’s on the Board of Directors of OPEN Finance, a non-profit business league of LGBTQ+ leaders in financial services.

Brett holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Conservatory of Fine Arts at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Brenda is an economist and Head of Research Insights for Asia Pacific. She leads a team of modellers and data scientists that design and implement quantitative risk management solutions for ESG and climate change, Asset Liability Management (ALM) and corporate credit risk. Brenda is also actively involved in providing research insights to support our customers, developing content for thought leadership in the region and promoting our solutions in globally.

Throughout her time at Moody's, she participated in initiatives that involved developing award winning risk models. In addition, Brenda led numerous consultancy projects with banks, fintech, regulators and investment firms worldwide, focusing on stress testing and model design.

Before joining Moody's Analytics in 2015, Brenda worked for SITA in Prague as a Treasury analyst responsible for the cash flow, currency risk management and bank relationship. In addition, she worked as a Senior Transfer Pricing consultant for EY in Mexico. Furthermore, she worked in the Mexican Ministry of Finance focusing on the liability management of the public debt in local and international markets.

Brenda holds a BA in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, and MA degree in Economics and Finance with honors from Charles University in Prague. Currently she is pursuing a PhD in Accounting and Financial Management at University of Reading in the U.K.

Based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Nadja von Michalkowsky is an Associate Director within Moody’s ESG covering corporate clients in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Before that, Nadja was an Assistant Vice President in the Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as in the France & BeNeLux commercial teams with Moody’s Investor Services. After working for more than 10 years in the Financial Sector, Nadja has extensive experience in covering clients in the corporate, financial and infrastructure space with a special focus on Debt Capital Markets and Bank Loans.

Before joining Moody’s, Nadja worked in the Corporate Banking Department of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation from 2017-2019 covering Blue Chip companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

From 2008 until 2017 Nadja held roles in various departments within Commerzbank; predominantly in Debt Capital Markets in Frankfurt and New York. She has experience in Syndications, Execution and Origination, structuring and marketing Syndicated Loans and Schuldschein loans for Corporates and Banks.

Nadja holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Cooperative State University Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Sarah currently works as Assistant Vice President in Moody’s Ratings Sustainable Finance Group, located in London. She is the Carbon Transition analytic lead and has expertise in analysing the credit impacts of the energy transition, low carbon technologies, climate policy, and the climate nature nexus. Her primary responsibilities include integrating carbon transition and other climate considerations into credit considerations and Moody’s Ratings ESG scores, authoring thought leading research, and overseeing Carbon Transition Indicators (CTIs). Sarah led the development of the CTIs, which are bottoms-up models which measure carbon transition exposure of some of the most exposed sectors. She has also regularly represents Moody’s Ratings as a speaker in events and webinars. 

Prior to joining the team in 2019, Sarah served as a Ratings Associate in Moody’s Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Team in New York covering a diverse portfolio of project financings and municipal infrastructure issuers across the energy, transportation, and social infrastructure sectors. She holds a B.A. in Economics Oberlin College and an MSc in Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment from UCL, where she studied energy modeling for her dissertation.