Zoltan Pozsar

Zoltan Pozsar is a Managing Director and is the Global Head of Short-Term Interest Rate Strategy based in New York. Prior to joining Credit Suisse in February 2015, Zoltan had a distinguished career in the public sector. During the Great Financial Crisis, Zoltan served at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in charge of market intelligence for securitized credit markets and was the point person on market developments for senior Federal Reserve Board, US Treasury and White House officials throughout crisis; lead the effort to build the TALF to backstop the ABS market; and pioneered the mapping of the shadow banking system which the FSB used as the basis to monitor and regulate shadow banking globally. From 2011 to 2012, Zoltan was a visiting scholar at the IMF where he authored a number of papers, framed the Fund’s official position on shadow banking, and consulted G-20 working groups on global macro-financial developments. From 2012 until his arrival at Credit Suisse, he served as a senior adviser to the U.S. Department of the Treasury