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Igor Zelezetskii

Senior Fellow at Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment; credit-ratings specialist and former CEO of ACRA who researches sovereign risk ceilings and development finance in Africa.

Oct 12, 2026

26:29
Yeah.
26:29
So first of all, uh, I have spent almost fourteen years at one of the Big Three.
26:36
So I have authored methodology.
26:38
It was a very substantial project.
26:41
It was a global methodology.
26:43
[clears throat] And it was very rewarding experience.
26:46
I still cherish that, that, that time and, and the colleagues who I worked with.

6 MINS LATER

32:31
The first is, do you see a route to scaling your approach and your methodology in economically? Do you think it can be applied by the agencies in a way that can be done economically because they're obviously price sensitive? And the second perhaps [chuckles] more substantive question, and maybe you want to answer it first, is I'm interested, how have the ratings agencies responded to your critique?

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