Featured Speakers

David Wyss is the chief economist at Standard & Poor's, based in New York. In this position, he is responsible for S&P's economic forecasts and publications, and co-authors the monthly Economic Forecast and the weekly Financial Notes. David joined Data Resources, Inc. in 1979 as an economist in the European Economic Service in London, which was acquired by McGraw-Hill. He came back to the United States in 1983 as chief financial economist for DRI/McGraw-Hill, became chief economist for Standard & Poor's DRI in 1992, and for Standard & Poor's in 1999.

Before joining DRI, Dr. Wyss was a Senior Staff Economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, and Economic Advisor to the Bank of England.

David holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. David is quoted regularly in the press, and has appeared on many major television programs. He is currently on the economic advisory boards for SIFMA, FINRA, and Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies. He was named by Treasury and Risk magazine as one of 2009's "100 Most Influential People in Finance."

Jeff is a Managing Director and Head of Global Credit Strategy Research. In this role, he is responsible for global macro credit strategy across high-grade, high-yield, and credit derivatives. This department is consistently top ranked in investor surveys taking Institutional Investor #1 in 2009 for High Grade Credit Strategy as well as runner up in General and High Yield strategy.

Based in New York, Rosenberg is a frequently cited commentator on credit spread and corporate default trends, developments in the credit derivative and CDO markets, and other macro issues facing the credit markets and their implications for other financial markets.

In addition to providing relative value credit strategy research, the group provides credit portfolio risk evaluation and optimization advice based on its proprietary credit risk model, Credit Option Adjusted Spread (COAS) and its proprietary credit portfolio risk measurement methodology, Lighthouse.

Rosenberg joined the company in 2002 from Credit Suisse First Boston where he was the U.S. investment-grade strategist. Previously, Rosenberg worked on derivative pricing and risk management models at Bankers Trust. Prior to that, he was a mortgage trader for a money management firm.

Rosenberg earned a bachelor's degree in Business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from the University of Minnesota, and a master's degree in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a Chartered Financial Analyst since 1997.