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Daniel Zelikow is Vice Chair, Public Sector, at J.P. Morgan, Global Co-Head of Infrastructure Finance and Advisory, and Chair of the Governing Board of the JPM DFI. He leads a team that manages the bank’s business with public sector clients. In 2020, he launched the JPM DFI to scale up the firm’s financing of development challenges in emerging markets.

Immediately prior to re-joining J.P. Morgan in 2010, Daniel was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. While with the IADB, he was instrumental in defining a new corporate strategy, doubling the volume of client operations, devising and executing the IADB’s response to the global financial crisis, and bringing about significant management and financial reforms. He also chaired the management committees on policy, operations, and risk, and he chaired the Board of Executive Directors in the President’s absence.

Daniel was previously with J.P. Morgan and headed the firm’s emerging markets sovereign debt origination and its liability management group. He also managed a New York-based investment banking practice focused on government financial institutions, multilateral development banks, export credit agencies and sovereigns.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 1999, he held key positions in the U.S. Treasury, where he was Deputy Assistant Secretary responsible for financial policy towards countries in the Americas, Asia and Africa. At Treasury, he was the founding director of the Office of Technical Assistance and also served for two years as the Senior Economic and Financial Advisor to the President and Minister of Finance of Albania in Tirana.

He holds a BA from Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude, and a D.Phil from Oxford University. He serves on several for profit and non-profit boards.

Arsalan Mahtafar is the Director of Development Impact of the JPM DFI.

In this role, Arsalan maintains the JPM DFI methodology – ensuring it is in-line with best practices in the field of development finance – and applies the methodology to banking and markets transactions originated and structured by J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank to assess their anticipated development impact.

Arsalan joins the JPM DFI from J.P. Morgan’s Corporate & Investment Bank’s Strategy team, where he advised senior management on growth and transformation strategies, including the strategy and operating model of the JPM DFI. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Arsalan was a manager within McKinsey’s Economic Development Practice, where he advised developing country governments on country growth strategies. Arsalan holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development from Harvard University and dual Bachelors in Business Administration and International Political Economy from UC Berkeley.

Daniel Zelikow is Vice Chair, Public Sector, at J.P. Morgan, Global Co-Head of Infrastructure Finance and Advisory, and Chair of the Governing Board of the JPM DFI. He leads a team that manages the bank’s business with public sector clients. In 2020, he launched the JPM DFI to scale up the firm’s financing of development challenges in emerging markets.

Immediately prior to re-joining J.P. Morgan in 2010, Daniel was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. While with the IADB, he was instrumental in defining a new corporate strategy, doubling the volume of client operations, devising and executing the IADB’s response to the global financial crisis, and bringing about significant management and financial reforms. He also chaired the management committees on policy, operations, and risk, and he chaired the Board of Executive Directors in the President’s absence.

Daniel was previously with J.P. Morgan and headed the firm’s emerging markets sovereign debt origination and its liability management group. He also managed a New York-based investment banking practice focused on government financial institutions, multilateral development banks, export credit agencies and sovereigns.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 1999, he held key positions in the U.S. Treasury, where he was Deputy Assistant Secretary responsible for financial policy towards countries in the Americas, Asia and Africa. At Treasury, he was the founding director of the Office of Technical Assistance and also served for two years as the Senior Economic and Financial Advisor to the President and Minister of Finance of Albania in Tirana.

He holds a BA from Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude, and a D.Phil from Oxford University. He serves on several for profit and non-profit boards.

Allie Barry is a Vice President of the JPM DFI who focuses on several JPM DFI functions including deal origination, structuring, development qualification, and investor syndication.

Allie joined the JPM DFI from the firm’s Management Associate Program, a leadership development program. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Allie worked as an associate at Glade Brook Capital. Allie holds a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in International Politics from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Martina Brandli is an Associate of the JPM DFI. Martina joined the JPM DFI from the Investment Strategy team in J.P. Morgan’s Asset and Wealth Management business.

Prior to this, Martina worked as an analyst at the J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Italy and at the European Commission in Luxembourg. Martina holds a Masters in International Management and a Bachelor in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Mia Lu is an Associate in the JPM DFI. Mia focuses on applying the DFI methodology to Banking and Markets transactions across the CIB to assess their development impact in alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Qualified transactions contribute to the firm’s 2030 $2.5tn Sustainable Development Target. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mia worked at International Finance Corporation(IFC) of the World Bank Group, where she assisted IFC’s partnership with asset managers in green bond fund advisory service and management. Before IFC, Mia was a Global Markets Associate at Eurasia Group. Mia holds dual Masters in Public Policy and Economics from Georgetown University and a Bachelor in International Affairs and Economics from George Washington University.

Stephanie de Lesseps is an Analyst on the JPM DFI team and provides support to the JPM DFI functions in her role. Stephanie joins the team from the J.P. Morgan Private Bank within Asset & Wealth Management, where she worked with institutional families, endowments, and not-for-profits to advise them on multi-asset investments, custom credit, and complex transactions across their balance sheets. As part of Stephanie’s role in the Private Bank, and as sustainability lead for Family Wealth, she focused on pitching and bringing sustainable investing opportunities to her client base.

Stephanie graduated Cum Laude and Dean’s List from Georgetown University in May 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and French, with a completion of the French Honors Thesis with a Distinction mention. She studied at Sciences Po, Université de Strasbourg as a direct matriculation student as part of her college curriculum. She holds FINRA licenses SIE, Series 7, Series 79, and Series 63.

Daniel Zelikow is Vice Chair, Public Sector, at J.P. Morgan, Global Co-Head of Infrastructure Finance and Advisory, and Chair of the Governing Board of the JPM DFI. He leads a team that manages the bank’s business with public sector clients. In 2020, he launched the JPM DFI to scale up the firm’s financing of development challenges in emerging markets.

Immediately prior to re-joining J.P. Morgan in 2010, Daniel was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, D.C. While with the IADB, he was instrumental in defining a new corporate strategy, doubling the volume of client operations, devising and executing the IADB’s response to the global financial crisis, and bringing about significant management and financial reforms. He also chaired the management committees on policy, operations, and risk, and he chaired the Board of Executive Directors in the President’s absence.

Daniel was previously with J.P. Morgan and headed the firm’s emerging markets sovereign debt origination and its liability management group. He also managed a New York-based investment banking practice focused on government financial institutions, multilateral development banks, export credit agencies and sovereigns.

Prior to joining J.P. Morgan in 1999, he held key positions in the U.S. Treasury, where he was Deputy Assistant Secretary responsible for financial policy towards countries in the Americas, Asia and Africa. At Treasury, he was the founding director of the Office of Technical Assistance and also served for two years as the Senior Economic and Financial Advisor to the President and Minister of Finance of Albania in Tirana.

He holds a BA from Dartmouth College, graduating summa cum laude, and a D.Phil from Oxford University. He serves on several for profit and non-profit boards.