Yann Le Pallec

Yann Le Pallec is Executive Managing Director and Head of Global Ratings Services which includes Analytics, Research and Operations.

He is based in Paris and is a member of the S&P Global Ratings Operating Committee. Yann oversees a group of more than 2,200 analysts and support staff across 28 countries that covers more than one million outstanding ratings on entities and securities across a wide range of sectors. These include governments, corporations, financial institutions, and structured finance.

Yann also chairs the Board of CRISIL Ltd. CRISIL Ltd is a global provider of benchmarks and analytics for the financial community and also owns CRISIL Ratings, a leading credit rating agency in India. CRISIL Ltd is listed on BSA, the Mumbai stock-exchange.

Yann has held a diverse set of responsibilities in his career at S&P. In 2016, he was Head of Global Corporate Ratings, a group composed of 500 analysts responsible for analyzing over 4,000 non-financial corporations worldwide. From 2011 until 2015, he was responsible for S&P’s market-leading credit ratings business in EMEA, managing a team of over 900 rating analysts and support staff operating from 12 offices. Previously, Yann was Head of EMEA Corporate and Government Ratings, after various managerial and analytical positions in the Insurance and Sovereign & Public Sector groups.

Before joining S&P in 1999, Yann was a Senior Manager with the Paris-based audit firm Salustro Reydel.

Yann holds a Master’s degree in Business from Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economique et Commerciales (ESSEC) in France.