I
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.
1
APPEARANCES
1
PODCASTS
012
DEC 30
JAN 6
JAN 13
JAN 20
JAN 27
FEB 3
FEB 10
FEB 17
FEB 24
MAR 3
MAR 10
MAR 17
MAR 24
MAR 31
APR 7
APR 14
APR 21
APR 28
MAY 5
MAY 12
MAY 19
MAY 26
JUN 2
JUN 9
JUN 16
JUN 23
JUN 30
JUL 7
JUL 14
JUL 21
JUL 28
AUG 4
AUG 11
AUG 18
AUG 25
SEP 1
SEP 8
SEP 15
SEP 22
SEP 29
OCT 6
OCT 13
OCT 20
OCT 27
NOV 3
NOV 10
NOV 17
NOV 24
DEC 1
DEC 8
DEC 15
DEC 22
DEC 29
JAN 5
JAN 12
JAN 19
JAN 26
FEB 2
FEB 9
FEB 16
FEB 23
MAR 2
MAR 9
MAR 16
MAR 23
MAR 30
APR 6
APR 13
APR 20
APR 27
MAY 4
MAY 11
MAY 18
MAY 25
JUN 1
JUN 8
JUN 15
JUN 22
JUN 29
JUL 6
JUL 13
JUL 20
JUL 27
AUG 3
AUG 10
AUG 17
AUG 24
AUG 31
SEP 7
SEP 14
SEP 21
SEP 28
OCT 5
OCT 12
Oct 12, 2026
Breaking the Sovereign Ceiling: Disaggregating Risk to Finance Africa Forward with Igor Zelezetskii
I
26:29Igor ZelezetskiiGUEST
So first of all, uh, I have spent almost fourteen years at one of the Big Three.
I
26:46Igor ZelezetskiiGUEST
I still cherish that, that, that time and, and the colleagues who I worked with.
6 MINS LATER
M
32:31Marcus CourageHOST
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?