Moody's Analytics Experts

Cristian deRitis

Leading economist; recognized authority and commentator on personal finance and credit, U.S. housing, economic trends and policy implications; innovator in econometric and credit modeling techniques.

James Partridge

Credit analytics expert helping clients understand, develop, and implement credit models for origination, monitoring, and regulatory reporting.

Steven G. Cochrane

Leading APAC economist oversees regional economic analysis and forecasting; presents company’s economic research and outlook, and leads consulting projects to help clients assess effects of these developments on their business.

Katrina Ell

Brings deep expertise in economic research, analysis and forecasting of countries located throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Juan Pablo Fuentes

International economist with extensive macroeconomic analytical work focusing on individual Latin American countries, including the regional impact of global developments such as fluctuating worldwide energy and oil market conditions.

Kamil Kovar

Kamil Kovar is an associate director and economist at Moody’s Analytics, where he works as lead economist for Euro zone forecasting.

Hasio-shan Yang, Ph.D.

Senior economist; commercial real estate; credit risk modeling; data infrastructure; machine learning; quantitative modeling and thought leader.

Jesse Rogers

Economist covering Latin America and emerging markets across Asia; specializes in trade policy, international capital flows and economic development.

Thomas LaSalvia, Ph.D.

Head of CRE Economics; commercial real estate; emerging trends; housing sector; thought leader; capital markets; office.

Masha Muzyka

CECL, IFRS 9, and IFRS 17 expert; credit risk and insurance risk specialist; strategic planning and credit analytics solutions consultant

Chris Stanley

Across 15 years as a consultant and practitioner, Chris worked on a range of strategy, risk management and operational transformation initiatives with leading financial institutions throughout North America. From this collection of abstract, “what now?” challenges, he has developed specialties in credit optimization, business combinations and system implementations. Chris joined Moody’s in 2020 after leading CECL implementation and dual risk rating expansion at a $50 billion bank.

Jun Chen

A well-recognized researcher in the field; offers many years of experience in the real estate finance industry, and leads research efforts in expanding credit risk analytics to commercial real estate.