Swami Venkataraman is a Senior Vice President-Manager in Moody’s Environmental, Social and Governance group. He manages the development of ESG analytic tools, assessments and the integration of ESG considerations into Moody’s credit ratings and research. He is the primary spokesperson for Moody’s in Americas for ESG and sustainable finance and chairs the ESG Americas working group. Before moving to the ESG team, he was a lead analyst in the North American utilities and infrastructure team since 2014. Prior to Moody’s, he was a project and export finance banker with Standard Chartered bank in Asia. Mr. Venkataraman has broad credit and banking expertise in the power, clean energy and infrastructure sectors over the past 20 years. He has worked in New York, San Francisco, London, Mumbai and Mexico City. Swami is a CFA charterholder, 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.