De Vitry elected to Isda board

Benoit de Vitry, London-based global head of commodities and emerging markets rates at Barclays Capital, has been elected to the board of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (Isda).

De Vitry's election was announced at the trade association's annual conference, currently taking place in Chicago.

Prior to joining Barclays Capital in 2000, de Vitry was at CIBC in New York, where he was a managing director and head of commodities. From 1993 to 1996, he was a director in global commodity derivatives at Merrill Lynch in London and New York. He began his career with Banque Paribas in 1987, where he worked for six years, initially in Los Angeles in the firm's leveraged finance group and subsequently in New York in the commodity indexed transactions group.

De Vitry will be the keynote speaker at Energy Risk's – Risk's sister publication – Houston congress on Tuesday, May 18.