Andrew BLEASE

Associate Managing Director, Infrastructure Finance Group, Moody's Ratings

Andrew Blease is an Associate Managing Director in Moody’s EMEA Infrastructure team, based in Paris, and responsible for a team of analysts covering transport infrastructure across EMEA and utilities in central and eastern Europe.

Over the course of a long career at Moody’s, Andrew has acted as lead analyst for a broad range of infrastructure and project finance issuers. He has followed the transport infrastructure sector since joining Moody’s in 2000, and has been instrumental in the development of Moody’s rating methodologies, having authored the first global airport methodology and co-authored the first PFI/PPP construction period methodology. He played a key role in the development of the EMEA Infrastructure team having been involved in the first ratings in the sector and subsequently in building the franchise. Andrew is a frequent speaker at conferences and other events, and has been called as an expert witness to various Government related enquiries through the course of his Moody’s career.

Prior to joining Moody’s Andrew spent his career in international banking, predominantly at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. Over this period he was involved in both the advisory and debt-arranging of project finance transactions, predominantly in the PFI and transport sectors.

Andrew studied finance at London Metropolitan University and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers

 

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