Speaker

Yann LE PALLEC

Executive Managing Director - Standard & Poor’s

Yann Le Pallec is Executive Managing Director, Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services in EMEA. Based in Paris, Yann is responsible for Standard & Poor’s market leading credit ratings business in EMEA, which covers more than 1,000 companies, financial institutions, insurers, public sector entities and sovereigns in the region, as well as some 8000 structured transactions. He is also a member of the Standard & Poor’s Executive Committee.
Yann leads a team of over 500 Ratings Analysts and support staff operating from 12 offices: Paris, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, Stockholm, Dubai, Johannesburg, Tel Aviv, Istanbul and Warsaw.
Before his current role, Yann was Head of EMEA Corporate and Government Ratings, after occupying various managerial and analytical positions in the Insurance and Sovereign & Public Sector groups. Before joining S&P in 1999, he was a Senior Manager with the Paris-based audit firm Salustro Reydel.
Yann holds a master’s degree in Business from Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economique et Commerciales (ESSEC) in France.