Swami Venkataraman, CFA, is an Associate Managing Director in Moody’s Environmental, Social and Governance group. He manages a global team of analysts responsible for the development of analytical methodologies for ESG assessments and scores and for the integration of ESG considerations into Moody’s credit ratings and research across all asset classes. He is a spokesperson for Moody’s Investors Service on ESG and sustainable finance with regulators and investors. Before moving to the ESG team, Swami was a Senior Vice President in the North American utilities and infrastructure team, with rating committee chair responsibilities.

Prior to Moody’s, he was a Director of Project and Export finance with Standard Chartered bank in Asia. Swami has broad credit and banking expertise in the power, clean energy and infrastructure sectors over the past 25 years. He has worked in New York, San Francisco, London, Mumbai and Mexico City.

Swami is a CFA charter holder, with a B.Tech in Electronics Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and an M.B.A. in finance from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM),Calcutta.