Steven Bavaria is managing director and head of leveraged finance rating at DBRS (http://www.dbrs.com), an independent credit rating agency based in Toronto with additional offices in New York and Chicago. He spent 20 years as an international banker and credit workout expert with Bank of Boston and Citibank; introduced and managed the rating of corporate bank loans during 15 years at Standard & Poor's; was a reporter/editor at Investment Dealers' Digest magazine; and, for a little variety, spent a year as associate commissioner for finance/administration at the Department of Mental Health in Massachusetts. He has written articles on Corporate Ethics and other topics, and is currently writing a book entitled "Too Greedy for Adam Smith: How Executive Compensation Practices Are Corrupting Free Enterprise." Bavaria is a graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and New England School of Law.

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