Tara Blake Email & Phone Number

International Private Sector Development Specialist with expertise in: project finance; corporate finance; trade and investment development in developing, transitional and post-conflict countries; political, sovereign and regulatory risk assessment and mitigation; complex deal structuring; public private partnerships; impact investment; program and project management and integration; business development; corporate governance and strategy.

Listed skills include Emerging Markets, Economics, International Development, Project Finance, and 25 others.

• Director, International Project Finance

  U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (Dfc) (Formerly Opic)

  Jan 2002 - Present - Washington D.C. Metro Area

  Director of International Project Finance at the U.S. DFC (formerly known as OPIC), the US Government’s Development Finance Institution. Previously, Director of Political and Sovereign Risk. Underwrite and structure complex investment projects and trade finance vehicles, draft and negotiate contracts, perform in depth due diligence, and provide investment, risk mitigation and deal structure advisory services to investors (projects ranging in size from micro finance to $2 billion). Key liaison for agency with investors, U.S. government officials, foreign government officials, multilaterals, and other financial institutions. Areas of expertise include public private partnerships, impact investment, microfinance, healthcare, infrastructure, sovereign guarantees, projects in post-conflict countries, and projects requiring creative structuring for financing and risk mitigation. Recent projects in Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Croatia, Ecuador, Georgia, Ghana, Guatemala, Hungary, Indonesia, Iraq, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Myanmar, Laos, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Serbia, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Zambia.