FRANK J. LINDEN
Director, Country Risk, Corporate Risk Management

Frank Linden is a Director, Country Risk in the Corporate Risk Management department of Merrill Lynch & Co. His responsibilities include the management of Merrill Lynch’s credit risk exposure by country through the assignment of internal country risk ratings, country exposure limits, and convertibility- or transfer risk management. His management efforts are designed to affect Merrill Lynch’s credit exposure across the globe as booked through the Firm’s entire product mix with both institutional- as well as retail clients. Additional responsibilities include the assignment of risk ratings and exposure limits for sub-national and supranational entities outside the US.

Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 1998, Frank Linden studied at The Fletcher School (Tufts and Harvard Universities) where he specialized in International Finance, Business and Political Economy and researched determinants of country risk ratings and methodologies employed by the major rating agencies. From 1993 to 1996, he worked in the Strategic Analysis Division of the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands. His assignment included risk analysis and scenario modeling projects as part of NATO’s economic- and political estimates, and he served as the Netherlands’ representative on NATO’s Economic Committee. From 1991 to 1993, he served as an officer in the Royal Netherlands Army.

Frank holds an M.A. in International Relations from The Fletcher School, and an M.A. in Soviet and Eastern European Studies and undergraduate degrees in History and Law from the University of Amsterdam. Apart from English and Dutch, Frank is conversant in German, Russian, and French.

 

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