Swami Venkataraman is a director in Corporate and Government Ratings and is a member of the Utilities, and Infrastructure Ratings Group. Swami joined S&P’s Indian affiliate CRISIL in 1997 and has worked in the New York, San Francisco and London offices. He has analytical background in a wide-range of credits including corporate industrials, financial institutions and infrastructure projects in India and investor-owned utilities, independent power producers, project finance transactions, energy marketers and Public-Private Partnerships in the US and UK.

Swami is a lead spokesperson for Standard & Poor’s on Climate Change and clean energy technologies. As a member of Standard & Poor’s carbon task force Swami has responsibility for developing new products and analytical capabilities for the carbon markets and for interacting with regulators and other Government bodies on matters relating to climate change, clean energy and carbon markets.

Swami is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the CFA Society of San Francisco. He holds a B.Tech in Electronics & Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and an MBA in Finance and Information Systems from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta.