Diana Higgins

Diana Higgins has built her credit risk expertise by developing and transforming credit departments in energy trading companies over 16 years. Throughout her career, she has led and been involved in portfolio compression due to imminent defaults, risk management purposes and, latterly, for regulatory reasons.

Higgins began her career in commodities with Glencore’s structure and trade finance oil team. At Enron, she was the credit manager for its physical metals division, where she managed and merged the credit portfolio with Metallgesellschaft. Higgins was also the head of credit for Williams Europe, and started the credit department at Centrica Energy, where she was the head of credit for Europe, covering gas, power, coal and emissions wholesale trading. She has written and reviewed several credit policies for major energy trading companies, and, as director of Crediten, continues to help energy trading firms to set up and improve their credit operations.

Higgins shares her expertise by training professionals in the credit field. She has been a delegate to various working groups at the European Federation of Energy Traders, co-author of the EFET Credit Training Manual, a speaker at risk events and has featured in Energy Risk magazine. In addition, she writes articles on risk topics for The OTC Space.

Higgins is a civil engineering graduate from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, and gained her MBA at Edinburgh University. She is the founder and chair of the Uniandes Alumni network in the UK, and has mentored dissertations for postgraduate students at Edinburgh University. Higgins lives in London with her husband and daughter.

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