Elina Ribakova directs the IIF’s economic research on emerging markets.

Rehan Akbar is a Vice President – Senior Analyst in Moody’s EMEA Corporate Finance Group based in Dubai. He covers a diversified portfolio including Oil & Gas, petrochemicals, transport and mining companies situated in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa. Prior to joining Moody’s in 2011, Rehan worked as a credit analyst at Mashreq Capital where he covered emerging market corporates. He started his career as a software engineer and technology consultant. Rehan has a Masters degree in Management Sciences and Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Lahore University of Management Sciences. He is a CFA charterholder.

Marie Diron heads the Sovereign Risk Group for Asia Pacific, the Middle East and Africa, responsible for analytical teams covering sovereigns and multilateral development banks in these regions.Marie has worked as Moody’s lead sovereign analyst for a number of Asia Pacific credits, including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka and Australia.

Joanna Fic is a senior analyst in the EMEA Infrastructure Finance team based in London with extensive experience across both the infrastructure and utility sectors. Joanna's portfolio currently includes a number of European transport infrastructure assets as well as regulated and unregulated electric and gas utilities in the region.

Gabriele has been in the primary structured finance group of Moody’s since 2014. He has been lead analyst for primary ratings on ABS SME Loans and Leasing, European CLOs, NPLs, repack securities and ABCP.

Constantinos is a Senior Vice President and leads a team of analysts covering banks in Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans. Since joining Moody’s Limassol-based banking team in 2005, Constantinos has followed banks as lead analyst in South Africa, Egypt, Ghana, Israel, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Montenegro, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. He has authored numerous articles covering the African and Balkan banking systems and is a regular speaker at regional conferences.

Sean is responsible for Moody’s analytic teams that rate banks and nonbank financial companies in the Nordics, Baltics, South-Eastern Europe and emerging markets in Middle East and Africa. Prior to relocating to London in 2011, Mr. Marion held various positions of progressive responsibility in Moody’s, including working in the firm’s offices in Mexico City and Toronto. Mr. Marion holds graduate degrees in economics from the Université Paris I (Sorbonne) and the London School of Economics. He also holds an undergraduate degree from Bishop’s University, Canada.

In his capacity as an Associate Lead Analyst, Daniel is responsible for the subsovereign portfolio which includes metropolitan municipalities and government related issuers based in South Africa. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from University of South Africa and a Diploma in Financial Management from Damelin Business College.

Matt Robinson manages the Sovereign Risk Group’s Middle East and Africa team producing ratings and research regarding sovereign and supranational creditworthiness in Sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East/North Africa. He is responsible for managing staff located in London, Frankfurt, Dubai and New York.

Dominic is a Senior Credit Officer within the European insurance team, and covers a wide range of issuers as lead analyst including UK Life and P&C insurers, Aegon and Generali. Before joining Moody’s in June 1998, he helped found Syndicate Underwriting Research Limited (SURL), where he was Head of Research. SURL was acquired by Moody’s in 1998. MA (Hons) St Andrews University, Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII).

Lucie is the lead analyst for several Sub-Saharan African sovereigns and supranational issuers and is a senior member of Moody’s Africa Sovereign Ratings team. Lucie holds a postgraduate degree in Probability and Statistics from a French Engineering School (ENSAI) and a Master’s degree in Economics from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris.