Ariane Ortiz-Bollin is vice president and senior credit officer in the Credit Strategy and Research Americas team at Moody’s Investors Service. She leads cross-sector analytic initiatives, strategic research, and outreach in Latin America. Ariane chairs an internal Latin America Credit Council, working closely on credit strategy with senior leaders of Ratings & Research and other Credit Strategy & Standards functions within Moody’s. She is tasked with ensuring global analytical consistency with other regional credit strategy functions and foster collaboration across analytical teams.

Before her current role, Ariane was part of the Global Emerging Markets team, responsible for generating house views, decision enabling insights and research that leveraged the thought leadership of Moody’s emerging market analysts around the world. Ariane also led the implementation of Moody’s emerging markets outreach strategy, including hosting Moody’s Emerging Markets Decoded podcast. 

Ariane spent a decade as a sovereign analyst, managing a portfolio of sovereigns and multilateral development banks in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Mexico, Chile and the International Finance Corporation, leading the internal rating committee discussions for her portfolio of credits, country and region-specific publications, and meetings with government officials. Ariane also led several high impact analytic and data systems projects for the Sovereign group, partnering with several teams across Moody’s. 

Before joining Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group in 2011, Ariane was a research analyst at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, prior to which she was a corporate credit analyst in Citi-Banamex in Mexico. Ariane graduated with Honors in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.