Steve Dreyer is Managing Director - Lead Analytical Manager, U.S. Utilities & Infrastructure Ratings, overseeing a group of analysts providing credit ratings and research on investor-owned electric, gas, and water utilities, independent power producers, gas pipelines, project finance, and public-private infrastructure partnerships. He also leads S&P’s initiative to apply Enterprise Risk Management to the credit analysis process for corporate ratings globally, and is US project lead on an initiative to enhance transparency in global carbon markets.

From 2000 to 2006, Steve was North American practice leader for Insurance Ratings. He joined Standard & Poor’s in 1990 with its acquisition of ratings firm Insurance Solvency International, Ltd., whose U.S. subsidiary he managed. Prev¬iously he was responsible for insurance industry forecasting at Chase Econometrics.

Steve earned a B.A. in Statistics from the University of Delaware and did graduate work at Drexel University. He completed executive development programs at the University of Virginia (1996), Columbia University (2005) and INSEAD (2007).

Steve was named to Insurance Newscast’s "List of 100 Most Powerful People in Insurance in North America" from 2002 to 2006. In 2003, he contributed to the Greater New York Safety Council’s "Roundtables on Sector Preparedness", report¬ing to the 9-11 Commission. He is a director of the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association, which sets ethical standards in the sale of life insurance and annuities.