John Lonski is Managing Director and Chief Economist of Moody's Capital Markets Research Group. His comments on credit market conditions and the business cycle appear daily in Moody's CreditTrends and weekly in the Weekly Credit Outlook publication of Moodys.com.

A member of Blue Chip panel of economic forecasters, Mr. Lonski participates in a number of other forecasting surveys among which are the monthly pollings conducted by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and Reuters, as well as the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's semiannual Survey of Professional Forecasters. In 2009, John ranked second among the more than 50 forecasters participating in Bloomberg's monthly survey of forecasters.

Prior to joining Moody's in February 1985, John was employed by the National Economic Research Associates (NERA). John holds a B.S. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and, except for the dissertation, completed all of the requirements for a Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University.

John has appeared many times on CNBC, Bloomberg Television and Radio, Fox Business News, Business News Network, the Wall Street Journal Radio Network, and National Public Radio. He also is regularly cited in Bloomberg News, Dow Jones, Reuters, the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, the Financial Times, the New York Times, while also contributing a quarterly "op ed" piece for Japan's Nikkei Veritas.