Sarah is responsible for a portfolio of credits that includes the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, and Cyprus. She is also one of the Sovereign Risk Group’s global spokespeople. She joined Moody’s in 2009 after completing a Sloan Fellowship at the London Business School.

Laurent Le Mouël joined Moody’s as senior analyst with the Financial Institutions Group in February 2015 and is based in our Paris office. Prior to joining Moody’s Laurent has worked as Head of Regulatory and Prudential Affairs with Crédit Agricole S.A., since 2012. He was responsible for the monitoring of prudential and regulatory developments and assessing their impact on this large French banking group. Before 2012, Laurent held several banking supervisory positions at Banque de France.

Caroline Pichon is a Vice President – Senior Analyst in Moody’s Covered Bond team based in Paris. Caroline is lead analyst for several covered bonds programmes. Prior to assuming her current role, Caroline was based in New York and headed the Student Loan and Consumer Asset-Backed Securities (“ABS”) Surveillance team. From December 2013 to December 2015, Caroline was Vice President – Project Manager in the Project Management Office and was responsible for managing large projects with particular focus on Requests for Comment and Methodology development and implementation.

Vincent Allilaire is a VP-Senior Credit Officer in the Credit Strategy and Standards team. In this role, he leads the thematic credit research for the EMEA region, integrating macroeconomic and credit trends with credit views across rating groups and sectors to ensure rating consistency.

Benjamin has primary analytical responsibility for a number of insurance and reinsurance groups in France, Switzerland, Italy, the Benelux countries and the UK. He also covered for many years the German, Spanish and CIS insurance markets, as well as credit insurers.

Andrew Davison is a Senior Vice President in Moody’s Infrastructure Finance Group. Andrew is responsible for Moody's strategic initiatives responding to market dynamics that are reshaping the development and financing of infrastructure assets across the globe. Prior to assuming his current role, Andrew led Moody’s EMEA Project Finance team from 2007-2012.

Benjamin Leyre is a senior analyst in the EMEA Infrastructure Finance Group, based in Paris. He has responsibility for a portfolio of Southern European utilities, including unregulated electric and gas utilities, and regulated electric and gas networks. Benjamin has a wide range of utility experience acquired through a number of roles which he uses to comment on sector credit themes. Moody’s has a leading global Infrastructure Finance franchise, rating some US$2 trillion of corporate and project finance securities, representing more than 90% of all public bonds globally in the sector. 140 analytical staff cover more than 1,000 infrastructure issuers globally. Moody’s EMEA team of 50 specialists is responsible for rating 416 issuers. The rating agency covers more than 11,000 corporate issuers and 135 sovereign nations.

Eric Kang is a lead analyst in Moody’s Corporate Finance Group, based in Paris. He currently covers a portfolio of European companies operating in the business services industry as well as automotive-related industries e.g. car rental, parking operations, or distribution of spare parts. His previous coverage also includes consumer products, retail, oilfield services, and chemicals.

After serving the French public administration in several positions (including as Senior Adviser to Valérie Pécresse, Minister for the Budget and Public accounts) between 2007 and 2012, Olivier was appointed Chief Economist of the French leading Business Association (Association francaise des entreprises privées) in the summer of 2012. He joined the Moody’s Sovereign Department in Frankfurt as Vice-President/Senior Analyst in May 2018.