MARK ADELSON

Prior to joining S&P, Adelson had been a vocal critic of rating agencies' trend toward laxity and had written extensively about credit ratings and rating agency practices... Adelson attended college at Princeton, where he majored in economics. He received the John Glover Wilson Memorial Award for his senior thesis titled The Application of Fast n-Transaction Filters by Zero Cost Traders in Imperfect Capital Markets. After Princeton, he attended law school at the University of Michigan. After graduating from law school in 1985, he practiced law at the firm of Thacher Proffitt & Wood, where he worked on mortgage-backed securities transactions and related regulatory matters.

Primary location: Long Island City United States