Paul Watters, CFA

Paul Watters is a Senior Director and Head of Corporate Research for S&P Corporate Ratings in Europe. He currently chairs S&P’s EMEA Credit Conditions Committee and is the Corporate Country Coordinator in the U.K.

Prior to his current role, Paul has held various senior roles within S&P’s Leveraged Finance Group since joining S&P in January 2002, that included being a primary analyst for a portfolio of high yield credits in the metals and mining, chemicals and oil and gas sectors.

Previous to Standard & Poor’s, Paul spent almost fifteen years working in debt capital markets in various senior trading and research roles with both Lehman Brothers and Nomura International.

Paul read Economics at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, is a CFA Charterholder, and a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers in the UK.