Moody’s Investors Service announced today that Catherine Deluz has joined its Toronto office as a vice president, senior analyst on the utilities, project and infrastructure team.

Deluz will be responsible for Moody’s rating coverage of Canadian project finance and public-private partnership issuers, Canadian airport authorities, and NAV CANADA, as well as certain U.S. power company
issuers.

She joins Moody’s after 19 years with RBC Capital Markets and Royal Bank of Canada, where most recently she was responsible for structuring bank debt solutions for clients in the utilities, infrastructure, and public sector markets. Deluz holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia, a business administration degree from the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises, in Bordeaux, France, as well as a political science and business administration degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques, in Bordeaux, France.

“We continue to see growth in the Canadian project and infrastructure finance environment, particularly with the on-going development of the public-private partnership model in Canada,” said Andrew Kriegler,
managing director of Moody’s Canada. “We are extremely pleased to add Catherine to our staff to serve the market’s demand for credit risk opinions on Canadian project financings. Catherine’s 19 years of experience in the credit markets, including several years working with Canadian public sector borrowers, made her an ideal candidate for this role.”