Devi Aurora

Managing Director, Head of Financial Institutions and Alternative Funds Ratings at S&P Global Ratings

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Based in New York, Devi Aurora is Managing Director and Analytical Manager at S&P Global Ratings. She heads a diversified portfolio of U.S. financial institutions in S&P’s ratings practice, and her team of experienced analysts has a portfolio that covers U.S. banks, securities firms, financial market infrastructure companies, and alternative funds. As team leader, she manages relationships with issuers and investors, and is responsible for ensuring analytical rigor and consistency across financial institutions and alternative funds ratings. Prior to her most recent position, she served as a senior member of the global Financial Institutions team, where she analyzed banks and other financial institutions and specialized in research and thought leading commentaries on banking industry trends and regularly represented S&P’s views on these topics. Devi began her career as an international macroeconomist and country risk expert at DRI/Global Insight. She subsequently specialized in fixed income research and corporate credit trends analysis for S&P Global, with a focus on default research and leveraged finance. She has 25years of experience with credit analysis, fixed-income analytics, economic modeling and forecasting. Devi holds a M.A. degree in international economics from Yale University and a B.A. degree in Economics and French from Vassar College, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.