Sridhar Manyem is director, industry research and analytics at A.M. Best. Sridhar is the head of the industry research team and his responsibilities include publishing A.M. Best’s perspectives of topical issues relating to the insurance industry and possible implications to A.M. Best’s Credit Ratings.

Prior to joining A.M. Best in 2017, Sridhar was at The World Bank as a senior credit officer responsible for implementing reinsurance credit risk framework at MIGA (Multilateral Investment Guarantee Association). Before the World Bank, Sridhar was a director at Standard & Poor’s, and was responsible for a portfolio of insurers, as well as a lead enterprise risk management (ERM) specialist reviewing ERM and ECM frameworks for a portfolio of (re)insurers and multiline insurers.

Sridhar worked at Nationwide Insurance’s ERM function, where his areas of responsibilities included strategic asset allocation, asset-liability management and risk modeling. He has taught basic economics and finance courses at the graduate level and undergraduate level at Ohio Dominican University.

Sridhar graduated with an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and has an undergraduate in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.