NewOak Capital has appointed Vincent Truglia as managing director of global economic research.

Truglia has over 31 years experience in assessing how global risk affects financial markets, from the most highly developed countries to the weakest emerging markets. Prior to joining NewOak Capital, Truglia was managing partner of WHAnalysis.com and managing director of the Sovereign Risk Unit at Moody’s Investors Service, responsible for the ratings of over 100 countries, more than twenty supra-nationals, and hundreds of government-related companies for the fixed income market.

Earlier he worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the Bank Supervision area, the Bank of New York/Irving Trust as a Senior International Economist, and the NCNB, the parent company of Bank of America, where he established NCNB’s country risk department.

During his long tenure on Wall Street, Truglia has been intimately involved in analyzing all economic and banking crises since the 1970s, including the emerging market debt crisis of the 1980s, the ERM crisis of the early 1990s, the Scandinavian banking crisis of the early 1990s, the 1997 East Asian Crisis, the 1998 Russian crisis, as well as the present financial market crisis facing the U.S. and other countries.