• Provides sovereign advisory and capacity building to Emerging Market Sovereigns• Dispenses training on country risk analysis for global bank analysts and university students• Creates Country Risk assessment of sovereign and global risk dashboards.• Provides sovereign risk services and presentations for international organizations

Responsibilities & Achievements:• Teach an introductory course on Country Risk Analysis to students in Master in Management, Program: M1 Financial Economics (Semester 2)

• Currently working of automation in monthly sovereign and global risk updates.• Conducted professional training on country risk analysis for global bank analysts,• Provided sovereign advisory services for international organizations

Responsibilities:• Lead and manage the Country Risk Analysis team which responsible for analysing, monitoring and reporting of sovereign risks for all relevant stakeholders, including Country Risk Crisis reports.• Write and direct the full reports on main sovereign ratings for material countries (e.g. the UK, Ireland, US, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey...). Regular management meetings with authorities.• Deliver the weekly CV19 country risk dashboard and the monthly update of Top Country risks • Lead and direct the Sovereign Stress Testing for the BoE, EBA and other annual internal tests• Directly manage a team of three economists, with regular training and coaching.• Overall responsibility for country risk methodology and modelling.• Lead the Country Climate Change Risk working group on integration of climate risk into sovereign risk.Achievements:• Developed various Macro Dashboards aimed at monitoring the impact of CV19 on Sovereign Ratings.• Created and designed a “Country Risk Dashboard” of short-term country risks (sovereign, political, recession, FX...) using set of Early Warning Indicators using both market sources and Google Trends.• Developed and tested a new macroeconomic database for implementing country risk models and assessments present in the bank (Sovereign PD & LGD models, Country Watchlist Colours model). • Created in-house Country Reputational Risk model and Country Overall FX Risk tool to assess currency misalignments. Contributed to the evaluation of Country Legal Risk rankings.• Designed and lead comprehensive set of presentations, guides, training and coaching of a team of analysts on macroeconomic and country risk analyses and related models, systems, reporting.

Responsibilities:• Top macro risks for the bank: definition and narratives, assessment of relative likelihood, impact and preparedness. Integration into the overall macro stress testing process.• Country risk methodology and modelling. Country risk reporting: Eurozone, Africa and the Middle East. Achievements:• Created a new systematic and quantitative assessment of the probability of occurrence for a comprehensive list of macro risks based on big data and early warning indicators.• System implementation of a new Country Cap methodology.

Responsibilities:• Overall responsibility for country risk methodology and modelling.• Country risk reporting, with main focus on the Eurozone, Africa and the Middle East.• Various contributions to country risk management: monthly portfolio reviews, assessment of country legal and business risks in countries of the EMEA region. Weekly briefs on main country risk news. • Contributions to the cross regional internal assessment: spillover risks in the Eurozone, for example.• Direct management of a team of analysts, statistical manager and modelling specialists for various high-profile projects related to country risk methodology, sovereign modelling and data management.Achievements:• Created a new Sovereign Database for more than 60 countries for implementing sovereign PD and LGD models after extensive review of the current country risk methodology.• Created the first methodology and model for Country Reputational Risk.• Created a methodology and model of EBA-like Bank Stress Test for European banks.• Contributed to the new T&C risk and Country Cap Methodology, including an override guide.

Responsibilities:• Primary rating analyst for emerging markets: Oman, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Jordan, and Azerbaijan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Seychelles, Georgia, Kazakhstan. Secondary analyst for Ukraine, Morocco, Tunisia, Cameroon, Benin, Mali, Senegal and Burkina Faso.• Conducted meetings with top officials at the Ministries of Finance & Economy, Central Banks, International organisations (IMF, WB, EBRD, UNDP) & professional organisations, US, UK, German and French embassies. Meetings included the Head of Government e.g. Morocco, Georgia.• Extensive exposure to press on both countries of primary responsibility and methodology. Speaker at international conferences. Liaised regularly with investors with interest in countries of responsibility.Achievements:• Performed macroeconomic forecasting. Advised the department on future macroeconomic statistics to be included in the sovereign database, including stock and flow analysis and debt sustainability.• Led in 2008-09 the S&P Global Default and Transition Study on Government Related Entities.• One of the few analysts in current role at S&P that has moved from Europe to Central Asia, Middle East and Africa with great ease. • Most remarkable articles were on stress scenarios of oil economies (Oil or Nothing? published in Dec 2004); The Problem of Contingent Liabilities in Kazakhstan (May 2007); Diversification in GCC Countries (July 2007); How Azerbaijan Is Responding To The Global Economic Turmoil (July 2009), Contingent Liabilities In Kuwait: How Much Do They Weigh On The Sovereign Rating? (June 2009); and more recently: Jordan’s Debt Stability Indicators: A Case For Fiscal Consolidation (June 2010); and FAQ On The Economic And Financial Impact Of Qatar's 2022 World Cup (December 2010).

Responsibilities:• Primary rating analyst for Western Europe (Italy; Belgium, France, Luxembourg) and emerging markets (Kazakhstan and Ukraine), analyst for supranational & government supported institutions.• Actively participated in criteria review. Achievements:• Published articles in ‘Credit Week’ e.g. Pension liabilities in Europe, Dutch Disease in Kazakhstan, and Political Fragmentation in Italy and other articles related to economic and policy developments• Created a system of oil prices stress scenario for Kazakhstan.• Presented in criteria sessions analysis of Pension Liabilities in Europe and Debt Sustainability model.

Expert for ANVIE (French Association for Valorisation of Research) on Russia for entrepreneurs/ bankers & Monetary/ Financial specialist for Institute of Economic Forecasting (Moscow) & CEMI .Research focused on Monetary and Financial Problems of Russia in Transition, Liquidity & Solvency of Russian enterprises in transition.

Analyzed & published report on Eastern & Central European experiences with banking systems, & derived lessons for Russia.

Created & compiled a multilingual (English/French/Russian) statistical dictionary. focal areas- Foreign Trade Statistics, Business Statistics, Business Registers, National Accounts.

Valorized & analyzed microstatistical data on CIS countries. Integrated database in macroeconomic model.Created data file of economics statistics for the CIS countries using Russian language publications.Translations in Russian/ English/ French; data verification of “CIS short-term economic indicators”.