Christian de Guzman of Moody's, by name, sounds very Filipino, but it's really hard to tell if you just play it by ear.
With his thick American accent, the Filipino roots is imperceptible.
When he was asked, "Pinoy ka ba?", he answered he is a "Fil-Am," or Filipino-American.
He grew up in Manila and at the age of 8 moved overseas, where he studied, worked and eventually lived.
He took on several jobs in the US, among them the IMF in Washington, D.C. before heading to Singapore, where he's been based for some 15 years now, working senior sovereign risk analyst for Moody's.
He last visited Manila earlier this year for an on-the-ground feel of how our Philippine economy is humming along.
He said the Philippines remains resilient to external shocks. Moody's earlier raised the country's foreign and local bond ratings to just a notch below investment grade, with a "stable" outlook.
source: www.abs-cbnnews.com
