William Foster

William (Bill) Foster is a Vice President-Senior Credit Officer
in Moody’s Sovereign Risk Group in New York, where he
serves as lead analyst on the United States, Canada, India,
Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka and World Bank Group credits. Bill
joined Moody’s in August 2016, following 10 years at the
U.S. Department of the Treasury. He most recently served
as Senior Advisor for International Financial Markets based
in New York, where he was the Office of International
Affairs’ first dedicated liaison to New York’s international
financial community.

From August 2012 to March 2015, he served as the U.S.
Financial Attaché to India at the U.S.Embassy in New
Delhi, where he represented the U.S. Government as its
primary economic expert and financial diplomat in India.
Bill joined Treasury’s Office of International Affairs as an
international economist in 2006, and covered a wide range
of geographies during his tenure, including Latin America,
South and East Asia. Prior to joining Treasury, he worked as
a management consultant at Accenture.

Bill holds a Master of International Affairs degree in
International Financial andEconomic Policy from Columbia
University’s School of International and PublicAffairs (SIPA)
and a BA from Wesleyan University. He is a member of
TheEconomic Club of New York and an Industry Advisory.