Maureen Maitland is vice president in S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Index Management and Production Department.  She is a member of several S&P Index Committees and is a leading media spokesperson for the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices.

In her role, Maureen oversees several departments, including index committee management and index development.  These departments support the creation and management of a variety of Standard & Poor’s indices in areas such as equities, real estate, fixed income, and commodities.  Maureen is the lead editor of all S&P index methodologies.  She also serves as operations and editorial manager for the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS^®), a joint product of Standard & Poor’s and MSCI Barra.

Before joining S&P Indices, Maureen worked for five years as a fixed income economist at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and UBS Securities in New York.  Prior to that, she worked for Standard & Poor’s DRI, an economic forecasting and financial data services branch of the McGraw-Hill Companies.

Maureen received a B.S. in economics from Lehigh University and holds an M.S. in economics from Brown University.