Roelof Steenekamp

Managing Director, Global Infrastructure and Project Finance at Fitch Ratings

Speaker

Roelof Steenekamp is a Managing Director in Fitch Ratings’ infrastructure and project finance group. He is based in London and leads Fitch’s Complex Credit Group (CCG), focusing on defining rating approaches globally on non-standard and specialised infrastructure and project finance transactions, including for digital and alternative infrastructure.

Roelof has over 25 years of credit experience in the financial sector, including over 16 years at Fitch where he held various senior level roles across the group, including six years as the Group Credit Officer (GCO) for the EMEA Corporate, International Public Finance and EMEA and APAC Infrastructure rating groups and heading up the global Corporate data analytics and research efforts. Prior to Fitch, he was a Senior Risk Manager at Rand Merchant Bank and was responsible for developing and implementing Basel II risk approaches at Investec Bank and ABSA Bank in South Africa. Roelof has a postgraduate honours degree International Finance and an undergraduate degree in Commerce from the University of South Africa.