Maria Lee is an Associate Managing Director and Head of Relationship Management for Asia Pacific. In her role, Maria leads the teams responsible for formulating and operationalizing commercial strategies related to new business development and existing issuer relationships in the Asia Pacific region. She also has co-management oversight of the MIS APAC Relationship Management team.

In addition to this role, Maria is also responsible for overseeing the relationship management of Moody’s key intermediary partners in Mainland China and Hong Kong.

Prior to joining Moody’s, Maria worked at Standard Chartered Bank as the Head of Ratings Advisory for Greater China and Northeast Asia. She has also worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia and has held analyst positions at Moody’s and Credit Suisse in Hong Kong. Maria is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales in Australia.