IFR Asia IMF/World Bank 2018 Roundtable: Roundtable participants

Christian de Guzman

Moody’s

Christian de Guzman is a senior analyst in Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group, responsible for government and supranational ratings in various countries across North and South-East Asia. He joined Moody’s in 2009 from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where he was a senior economist covering the ASEAN region, and previously held various research positions at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC and Procter & Gamble in Singapore.

Soufat Hartawan

Schroders

Soufat Hartawan is head of fixed income at Schroders Investment Management Indonesia, the largest independent asset manager in Indonesia, established in 1991. He has been at Schroders for more than 17 years and has nearly 20 years of experience in the Indonesian capital markets.

Augusto King

MUFG Securities

Augusto King is head of the capital markets group for Asia, excluding Japan, at MUFG Securities, the brokerage unit of Japan’s MUFG Bank. He joined MUFG in 2015 from Jefferies, where he was head of high yield and leveraged finance for Asia, and previously spent eight years at RBS as head of debt capital markets for Asia. King has over 25 years of experience in Asia’s debt markets, having worked for a number of international banks.

Neeraj Seth

BlackRock

Neeraj Seth is head of Asian credit at BlackRock, one of the world’s largest investment management firms, where he is responsible for fixed-income and credit businesses across Asia. He joined BlackRock in Singapore in 2009 after working in principal investments at Lehman Brothers and R3 Capital, and earlier in McKinsey’s technology and telecom practice for South-East Asia.

Steve Garton

Editor, IFR Asia (Moderator)