Alexander Dill

Alexander Dill has worked in the finance industry since 1986. He is Lecturer in the University of Chicago’s Financial Mathematics Program and Lecturer in Law at the UCLA School of Law. Before joining UCLA in 2019, he was Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Compliance in Financial Markets at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. He spent most of his career at Moody’s Investors Service, from 1996 to 2015. At Moody’s, he was Head of Global Covenant Research, which publishes reports on legal protections in corporate high-yield bond and leveraged loan transactions, and previous to that was Global Ratings Compliance Officer for Structured Finance. He also was a Senior Credit Officer in Moody’s Structured Finance Group, where he rated a wide variety of traditional and esoteric asset classes and bank-supported liquidity structures. Prior to Moody’s, he was a Branch Chief in Trading Practices in the Division of Trading and Markets at the US Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC. He began his law career in New York, specializing in secured lending, bankruptcy issues, and bank regulatory matters. He holds an AB from Harvard University, an MA from Columbia University, and a JD from Emory University School of Law, where he was Executive Articles Editor of the Emory Law Journal.