Rafael M. Molina

Senior Managing Director, Newstate Partners LLP

Rafael has 25 years of experience advising a wide range of clients on finance related matters, including liability management strategies aimed at optimizing debt service profiles and yield curves, enhancing risk management practices, and the financing of sustainable infrastructure projects.  His experience includes:

• Advising governments around the world in addressing public sector debt challenges, including the restructuring of public sector liabilities and the enhancement of risk management operations
• Advising governments on the formulation and implementation of targeted liability management strategies
• Advising sovereign fixed-income creditors and creditor committees on consensual negotiations to settle outstanding public sector claims

Rafael is currently leading the ... Read More

Lee Buchheit

Senior Partner in the Sovereign Practice Group at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Lee Buchheit is a senior partner in the Sovereign Practice Group at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, based in New York. He has previously served in the Washington, D.C., London and Hong Kong offices of the Firm. Mr. Buchheit regularly advises sovereign borrowers on their debt management activities. Over the last 35 years, Mr. Buchheit has worked on the debt restructurings of more than 24 countries including Mexico, the Philippines, Russia, Iraq, Greece and Argentina. ... Read More

Richard Francis

Director, Fitch Ratings

Richard Francis is a member of the Latin America Team in the Sovereign Group at Fitch Ratings, based in New York. He is responsible for a number of the sovereign’s ratings in Latin America and participates in the research initiative on sovereigns rated by Fitch in Latin America and the Caribbean. The lead sovereign analyst covering Colombia and Venezuela, among others, Richard is also a frequent spokesperson for the group on sovereign ratings. Prior to joining Fitch in 2016, Richard was a Director for the sovereign group at Standard and Poor’s where he covered countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. ... Read More

Elena Duggar

Managing Director - Chief Credit Officer Americas, and Chair of Macroeconomic Board, Moody’s Investors Service

Elena Duggar is Moody’s Chief Credit Officer for the Americas, and a Managing Director in the Credit Strategy & Research team. Elena is also the Chair of Moody’s Macroeconomic Board, which sets the global macroeconomic forecasts underpinning Moody’s universe of ratings. In her role leading the North and Latin America Credit Strategy & Research teams, the Global Macroeconomic Research team and the Proprietary Data Analytics team, Elena is responsible for forming house views on emerging risks, driving cross-functional alignment on key credit factors, coordinating rating approach across sectors in the Americas, and maintaining rigor in analytic frameworks. Elena leads major cross-sector outreach ... Read More