Omid Rahmani is an associate director with Fitch Ratings’ U.S. Public Finance Tax-Supported group in Austin, where he works on a team that covers local tax-supported issuers in Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona. In addition, he serves in the cyber risk team within the company’s cross practice ESG group. Prior to joining Fitch Ratings, Omid worked as an analyst at S&P Global with a focus on public finance utilities and cyber risk. Omid is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and subsequent to his schooling completed a legislative internship at the US House of Representatives. Omid is also an active archeologist and generally spends vacations working on archaeological sites in South America and the Middle East. In addition, Omid is very active with several charities and community activities in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Washington DC areas.