Chairman of Debt Capital Markets - Europe, Middle East & Africa
Barclays

Charlie Berman is Chairman of Debt Capital Markets for Europe, Middle East and Africa at Barclays and based in London. He is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and organisation of debt capital markets and related derivative, advisory and liability management activities in addition to managing senior relationships particularly with the Public Sector clients.
Prior to joining Barclays in September 2011, Mr. Berman spent 18 years at Salomon Brothers /Citigroup in a variety of positions including Co Head of Credit Markets and Co-Head of Fixed Income Capital Markets and was a member of the Global Fixed Income operating committee .
Mr. Berman graduated in Law from Manchester University in 1980 and then trained as a commercial banker with Bank of America. He gained exposure to the Eurobond and syndicated loan markets before joining Citicorp to focus on the nascent markets for ECP, MTNs and note issuance facilities. He subsequently joined Merrill Lynch to concentrate on Financial Institutions and the development of regulatory capital securities such as Variable Rate Notes and Tier 1 Preferred Stock.
In 1990 he joined Salomon Brothers where the scope of his mandate broadened to include public sector borrowers and corporations. During this period he was involved with the development of the Global Bond mechanism and its application beyond AAA issuers, before widening his focus to include issuers from emerging nations in EMEA and Asia. Mr Berman has been closely involved with Sovereign, Supranational and Agency borrowers for more than 20 years and has executed numerous benchmarks and other capital raisings for debut and frequent issuers across the globe.
Mr. Berman was honoured to receive the inaugural Euromoney/PWC Capital Markets Achievement Award in 2000 and in Euroweek’s 20th anniversary edition in 2007, he was voted by borrowers as the ‘Most Impressive Originator’ of the preceding 20 years. He has served as an executive committee member of International Primary Market Association and Vice President of the Euro Debt Market Association.