Meredith Coffey is Executive Vice President of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA), and runs the Research Department and the LSTA's LIBOR initiative and co-heads the LSTA's regulatory and CLO efforts, which help facilitate continued availability of credit and the efficiency of the loan market. In addition, Ms. Coffey heads efforts to analyze current and anticipated loan market developments, helping the LSTA build strategy and improve market efficiency. Ms. Coffey is a member of the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC), which is tasked with facilitating the transition from LIBOR to a new reference rate, and co-chairs the ARRC's Business Loans Working Group. She has published analysis on the syndicated loan market in numerous books and periodicals, presents frequently, and has testified several times before Congress on issues pertaining to the loan and CLO markets. Prior to joining the LSTA, Ms. Coffey was Senior Vice President and Director of Analysis focusing on the loan and adjacent markets for Thomson Reuters LPC. Ms. Coffey has a B.A. in Economics from Swarthmore College and a graduate degree in Economics from New York University.