Lisa Washburn is a managing director and the chief credit officer at Municipal Market Analytics, where she leads the firm’s consulting practice and credit surveillance business. She is a contributor to MMA’s Outlook and Default Trends publications and assists in maintaining its Default and Impairment Database. Before joining MMA, Ms. Washburn spent twenty years with Moody’s Investors Service, where she was a managing director in the public finance group and led several ratings teams. She is a member of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts and is currently co-chair of its Industry Practices Committee and the organization’s representative on the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council. A graduate of Lehigh University, Ms. Washburn is a certified management accountant and holds a credential in fundamentals of sustainability accounting.