Elena Duggar

Elena Duggar is the chair of Moody’s Macroeconomic Board, which is charged with developing the macroeconomic forecasts for use in the rating process throughout the rating agency, facilitating analyst access to the forecasts, and presenting Moody’s views with external audiences. Elena also manages the research team in the credit strategy and research group, which authors Moody’s Global Macroeconomic Outlooks, Moody’s Global Credit Conditions Outlook, and other thematic research, and helps form house views on macro and financial risk topics.

Prior to 2016, Elena served as Moody’s Group credit officer for sovereign risk, covering the global sovereign ratings portfolio. Elena also served as a member of the company’s Public Sector Credit Committee and Public Finance Franchise Committee, responsible for reviewing and approving sovereign and public sector rating methodologies.

Elena is a globally-recognized expert on sovereign defaults and the author of a large number of Moody’s publications, including Moody’s Global Macroeconomic Outlook, Moody’s Global Credit Conditions Outlook, Moody’s Sovereign Defaults Series, Moody’s country ceilings methodology and default studies for the sovereign, sub-sovereign, and emerging market corporate sectors. Her research work is frequently cited in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters and leading financial media.

Elena joined Moody’s in 2007 and previously was an economist at the International Monetary Fund, where she analyzed financial system stability in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department among other things.

She holds a B.A. in economics from Bates College and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.