Geoffrey Buswick is a Managing Director and State Government Sector Leader in the Americas Public Finance department at S&P Global Ratings. He’s interested in credit conditions, market changes, emerging technologies, and Ratings’ views on evolving risks in the public finance sector. He chairs state, local government, utility, and transportation committees and is an active primary analyst in the sectors, as well. Geoff also is a member of many internal focus teams, including the Cybersecurity Global Expert Focus team, the Cross-sector U.S. Pension and OPEB team, and the Digitalization of Markets team. Along with credit work, Geoff focuses on market outreach, developing research, and analytical education about S&P Global’s approach to rating government entities.
Geoff has held various senior analytical and management roles in Ratings. From October 2010 to February 2015, Geoff was the Lead Analytical Manager for the Public Finance Infrastructure Group. From 2005 to September 2010, he served as the Boston office head for S&P Global Ratings. Geoff joined S&P in 2000 as a state and local government analyst, focusing on east coast state, county, city and town credits. Additionally, he was a public finance national sector leader for both state revolving fund/pool issues and pension issues (including other post-employment benefits).
Prior to joining Ratings, Geoff served as the Finance Director for the City of Gloucester, Mass., and before that was the Administrative Officer for the City of North Adams, Mass. Geoff also served on his town’s Finance Committee from 2008-2015. Geoff currently sits on the Corporate Affiliates Board of the National Association of State Treasurers (NAST). He served two stints on the board of governors of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts (NFMA) (2020-2022 & 2010-2013) and was the co-chair for the 2012 and 2013 NFMA Annual Conferences. In 2017, he received the “Award for Excellence” from the NFMA for his work to improve market-wide disclosure of alternative financings.
Geoff holds both a B.A. in Political Science and an M.P.A from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.