Ariane Ortiz-Bollin is assistant vice president-analyst in the Sovereign Risk Group at Moody’s Investors Service. She is the lead analyst for Mexico, leading the internal rating committee discussions, country and region-specific publications, and meetings with government officials. Before joining Moody’s in 2011, Ortiz-Bollin was a research analyst at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, conducting research on a range of macroeconomic, monetary policy, and financial regulation topics. Her prior experience includes corporate credit analysis in Citigroup-Banamex in Monterrey, Mexico, covering the corporate sector in the north of Mexico. Ortiz-Bollin graduated with honors in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) and has a Master in Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University.