Nordic SSA forum 2026

Nilay Akyildiz

Director – International Public Finance

Fitch Ratings

Nilay Akyildiz is director of international public finance at Fitch Ratings. She is responsible for local and regional governments ratings primarily in Turkiye, Nordics and Germany. She was also previously fixed income portfolio manager for western Europe within the EMEA group. Previously, she worked at Allianz and Bank Austria-UniCredit Investment Banking.

Petter Bryman

Vice President - Senior Analyst, Sovereign Risk

Moody's Ratings

Petter Bryman is vice president of Sovereign Risk Group at Moody’s Ratings. He is also lead analyst for the sovereign ratings of France, Portugal, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Luxembourg and Moldova. He is responsible for setting out the company’s views on key credit themes for European sovereigns.

Annabel Dunne

Head of Institutional Relations

OMFIF

Annabel Dunne is head of institutional relations at OMFIF. She is responsible for delivering a portfolio of industry-leading events convening issuers and investors across the global sovereign, supranational and agency debt community. She manages sovereign debt institute’s key relationships with stakeholders across the international capital markets. She also serves on the OMFIF leadership team.

Christopher Garnett

Senior Adviser, Sovereign Debt Institute

OMFIF

Christopher Garnett is senior adviser at OMFIF. He also runs the consultancy ChuteCourt Asesores. Before this, he was principal permanent adviser for the UK to the executive president of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration. Previously, he was director of conferences business and a group executive committee member at Euromoney.

Klas Granlund

Head of Debt Management

Swedish National Debt Office

Jens Hellerup

Treasurer

Nordic Investment Bank

Joakim Holmström

Executive Vice President, Capital Markets & Sustainability

MuniFin

Joakim Holmström is head of capital markets and sustainability at Municipality Finance. He oversees treasury, asset and liability management, funding and sustainability. He previously served as head of funding and has brought experience from corporate treasury roles. 

Thomas Svane Jacobsen

Special Adviser, Government Debt Management Markets

Norges Bank

Mauri Kotamäki

Chief Economist

Finnvera

André Küüsvek

President and Chief Executive Officer

Nordic Investment Bank

Isabelle Laurent

Deputy Treasurer and Head of Funding

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

David Marsh

Chairman

OMFIF

David Marsh is Chairman and Co-Founder of OMFIF. Before starting at OMFIF in late 2009, he worked for City merchant bank Robert Fleming, corporate finance boutique Hawkpoint, German management consultancy Droege and London investment firm London & Oxford. Marsh took over the chairmanship from John Plender on 1 January 2018 having been Managing Director since 2014. He moved to a non-executive role following John Orchard’s appointment as Chief Executive effective 1 January 2020.

Lewis McLellan

Head of Content, Digital Monetary Institute

OMFIF

Leena Mörttinen

Permanent Under-Secretary

Ministry of Finance – Finland

Leena Mörttinen is permanent under-secretary of International and Financial Markets Affairs at ministry of Finance, Finland. She is also acting vice chairperson at the Board of Fingrid Oyj and the board member at the Arctia. Before this, she held various roles at the European Central Bank, Bank of Finland and Nordea Bank.

Katharine Neiss

Chief European Economist

PGIM Fixed Income

Ben Powell

Head of SSA Fixed Income

SEB

Olli Rehn

Governor

Bank of Finland

Olli Ruutu

Director General, Resource Policy

Ministry of Defence, Finland

Anu Sammallahti

Director of Finance

State Treasury Debt Management, Finland

Marcus Svedberg

Chief Economist

Folksam