Nikolay Popov

Nikolay is Associate Director in the EMEA Consumer Goods & Healthcare team within S&P Global Ratings’ Corporate Ratings group. He has a primary coverage responsibility for a portfolio of consumer goods, pharmaceutical and healthcare services companies across both investment and non-investment grade spectrum, and emerging and developed markets. 

Major names in Nikolay’s healthcare portfolio include AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Novo Nordisk, Merck KGaA and Alcon. Major names in his consumer goods portfolio include Anheuser-Busch InBev, Pernod Ricard, Coca-Cola HBC AG, Anadolu Efes, Coca-Cola Icecek, Philip Morris International and SuedzuckerAG.

Nikolay has been at S&P Global Ratings since mid-August 2015, and at the Corporate Ratings Group since August 2017.

Nikolay holds a Master’s degree in Management and Strategy from the London School of Economics and Political Science and Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics from the University of Exeter.