Edward is a managing director and the head of European leveraged finance at Fitch Ratings, based in London. He leads a team of analysts that monitors over 300 leveraged transactions and produces timely reports and commentary on leveraged credit product and market developments.

Prior to joining Fitch in 2003, Ed was an investment banker in Credit Suisse First Boston’s European acquisition and leveraged finance and telecommunications groups. From 1997 to 1998, Ed was in the European high-yield origination and credit research groups at Deutsche Bank. He also worked for Merrill Lynch in New York from 1994 to 1997 as an associate in the corporate bond research department covering Yankee bond issuers.

Ed holds a B.A. in history from Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York.