Lisa Washburn

Ms. Washburn is a Managing Director for Municipal Market Analytics. At MMA, she leads the firm’s consulting practice. In addition, Ms. Washburn maintains MMA’s credit impairment database and is a regular contributor to the firm’s weekly Outlook and biweekly Default Trends publications. Prior to 2015, she held a similar position at Municipal Market Advisors. Ms. Washburn also heads the credit surveillance bank business of MMA, where she has been responsible for the review of bank investment portfolio’s municipal holdings since 2012 utilizing MMA’s Portfolio Credit Benchmark, which she and Mr. Fabian created.

Prior to her position at MMA, Ms. Washburn was at Moody’s Investors Service for 20 years. From 2005 through 2011, she was a Managing Director in the Public Finance Group. During her tenure at Moody’s, Ms. Washburn managed several ratings teams including: Southwest Local Governments, Housing and State Revolving Funds, and Municipal Structured Products. She was a member of several senior level credit policy committees including Public Finance, Structured Finance and Public, Project and Infrastructure Finance. Additionally, Ms. Washburn led several the company’s high profile initiatives related to municipal bond default analysis and ratings comparability, including the 2010 Municipal Rating Recalibration and the rating agency’s first published municipal default study. She utilized her analytical and project management skills to work alongside Product Strategy to develop and launch the first generation of Moody’s Municipal Financial Ratio Analysis product (MFRA).

Ms. Washburn has been a member of the Board of Governors of the NFMA since 2008, where she served as Chair in 2016, leading the industry’s efforts for improved issuer financial disclosure. She has also served as a member of the organization’s Executive Board, Co-Chair of the Industry Practices Committee and an active member of the Education Committee. Ms. Washburn is also a member of MAGNY.

Ms. Washburn has an undergraduate degree from Lehigh University.