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Ariane Ortiz-Bollin is an Assistant Vice President-Analyst in the Sovereign Risk Group at Moody’s Investors Service. She covers Chile and countries in the Caribbean and Central America, leading the internal rating committee discussions, country and region specific publications, and meetings with government officials.Before joining Moody’s in 2011, Ariane was a research analyst at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, conducting research on a range of macroeconomic,monetary policy, and financial regulation topics. Her prior experience includes corporate credit analysis in Citigroup-Banamex in Monterrey, Mexico,covering the corporate sector in the north of Mexico.

Maria Celina R. Vansetti Hutchins is the Managing Director responsible for bank ratings in the Americas. In this capacity, Celina leads teams in Canada, the U.S., and in Latin America, with responsibility for roughly 250 ratings of financial institutions. Prior to her current role she was the Managing Director for Latin American bank ratings. Celina joined Moody’s in 1997 as the lead analyst for Brazilian banks. Prior to joining Moody’s, Celina spent 16 years with Citibank, N.A. and was a Vice President in the Latin America Financial Institutions Division, in New York. She served in various lending and credit capacities at Citibank Corporate Banking and Financial Institutions Group in Brazil and the U.S. Mrs. Vansetti Hutchins holds a Master’s degree from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and a B.A. in Agricultural Engineering from Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

Alberto Jones joined Moody’s in 2004 as Vice President Senior Analyst in the Corporate Finance Group to become in 2005 the country manager for the Mexico City office and representative of Moody’s local rating agency. Alberto has dual responsibility as he is the commercial team leader for the North Latam sub-region within Latin America as well as geographically he acts as the country manager for the Mexican MIS agency, Moody’s de Mexico.

Gersan Zurita is a Senior Vice President – Group Credit Officer at Moody’s Investors Service, managing the development and implementation of credit policy in Latin America. Gersan’s 20-year career in credit analysis and corporate banking encompasses a broad geography and wide scope ofasset classes, including Structured Finance as well as sovereign and subsovereign finance in the emerging markets, corporate finance in the USand infrastructure and project finance globally.

Dr. Juan Licari is a Managing Director at Moody’s Analytics and the head of the Economics and Consumer Credit Analytics team for Asia-Pacific and EMEA. Dr. Licari’s team is responsible for generating alternative macroeconomic forecasts for Europe and for building econometric tools to model credit risk phenomena. His team is an industry leader in developing and implementing risk solutions that explicitly connect credit data to the underlying economic cycle, allowing portfolio managers to plan for alternative macroeconomic scenarios. These solutions are leveraged into stress testing, reverse stress testing, and IFRS 9 practices. Juan is actively involved in communicating the team’s research and methodologies to the market. He often speaks at credit events and economic conferences worldwide. Dr. Licari holds a PhD and an MA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude from the National University of Cordoba in Argentina.

Mauro has been with Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group since 1996. He is currently the Regional Credit officer for Latin America in charge of a portfolio of credits that includes Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, and other Latin American countries. As a lead analyst, Mauro is also responsible for regional multilaterals including IADB, CABEI, and FLAR.

Adrian is presently a Vice President - Senior Analyst in the Global Project and Infrastructure Finance Team. Adrian holds lead analytical responsibility for a portfolio of infrastructure companies and projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. The portfolio covers toll-roads, energy utilities, natural gas pipelines, airports, PPPs, and other infrastructure assets.

Felipe es Vice presidente–Senior Credit Officer en el Grupo de Instituciones Financieras para Moody's. Basado en la Ciudad de México, lidera el análisis de crédito de diversas instituciones financieras, incluidos bancos, firmas de valores y compañías financieras en México y Chile. Antes de este cargo, él ha tenido responsabilidades similares para instituciones financieras en toda América Latina. Felipe se unió a Moody's en 2000 y tiene un MBA de la Universidad de Nueva York y recibió un B.S. en Administración de Empresas de la Universidad de Boston. Habla con fluidez español, inglés y portugués.

María del Carmen Martínez Richa es Vice President – Senior Analyst/ Team Leader. Desde hace cuatro años, María del Carmen está a cargo del equipo de analistas del sector sub-Soberanos que cubre México, Colombia, y Perú, el cual maneja un portafolio compuesto de más 70 estados, municipios y compañías de agua y de 100 créditos respaldados por transferencias. Previamente, era analista líder de sub-soberanos en Colombia y México. Ha publicado diversos reportes del sector, sobre la Ley de Disciplina Financiera, Perspectivas para Estados y Municipios y reportes multi-sector cubriendo temas de actualidad. Previamente, fungió como Directora de Riesgos de Dexia Crédito Local México, banca especializada en el otorgamiento de crédito a gobiernos locales y financiamiento de proyectos. Su experiencia en el sector financiero inició en la banca de inversión en París, Francia.

Marianna Waltz is a Managing Director at Moody’s Investors Service and has joined the company in 2011. She runs Moody’s Corporate Finance team in Latin America, including analysts based in the company´s offices in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. The team´s portfolio includes non-financial corporates in 15 countries and various industries, such as steel, mining, pulp and paper, oil and gas, telecom, construction, building materials, transportation, retail, food & beverage, and agricultural commodity companies, among others.

Sandra Beltrán joined Moody’s in 2007 as a Senior Associate at Moody’s Corporate Finance Group in Mexico City. Currently she is an Assistant Vice President Analyst responsible for a portfolio of Latin American companies in the homebuilding, construction, building materials and telecommunications infrastructure sectors, among others. Prior to joining Moody’s, Sandra was a fixed income analyst at Ixe Casa de Bolsa, covering a portfolio of consumer products companies and a research assistant in the Centro de Estudios de Competitividad del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where she participated in several sector reports sponsored by Conacyt.

Alonso Sánchez Rosario is a Vice President – Senior Analyst at Moody’s Corporate Finance Group in Mexico City. He leads the credit analysis and rating process for debt issuers in Latin America, including companies in the petrochemical, soft and alcoholic beverages, consumer packaged goods, automotive and retail industries, among others. Alonso joined Moody’s in 2005 in the Structured Finance Group and was lead analyst of structured transactions in Mexico until 2010. Alonso has over 22 years of experience evaluating credit risk in the Mexican financial sector. Prior to joining Moody’s, he occupied several positions in corporate banking with BankBoston, Bank of America, and Scotiabank. Alonso holds a B.S. in Actuarial Science and a Master in Finance by the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).