David Knutson, CFA

David Knutson, Senior Director of Strategic Outreach, S&P Global

Davied most recently worked at Schroders as the Head of US Fixed Income Product Management after joining the firm as Head of Integrated Credit Research. Before moving to New York, he helped establish the US asset management business and led the research initiatives for global financials and emerging markets for Legal and General in Chicago. Prior to that David was responsible for financials research at Mason Street Advisors, the investment adviser to Northwestern Mutual. Before joining the buyside, he worked at UBS in risk management, debt capital markets and liability management and earlier started his career at Bank of America as a credit analyst and later as the Research Manager for Latin America. He is currently a board member of the Fixed Income Analyst Society and was Chair of the Credit Roundtable, a member of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s Standards Advisory Group and participated on the advisory councils of several rating agencies.

David earned the Chartered Financial Analyst, Financial Risk Manager and Chartered Market Technician designations and was a Rotary Scholar at the Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires and also attended the University of Glasgow while earning a Masters in Finance, Economics and Foreign Languages and a Bachelors in International Studies and Political Science with Minors in History and Foreign Languages from Iowa State University of Science and Technology.