Development Finance
Institution

Arsalan Mahtafar leads the JPM DFI in its mission to channel private capital towards investments with development impact.

As a founding member of the JPM DFI, Arsalan worked with leading development banks to create the JPM DFI methodology, and frequently collaborates with global institutions to establish standards for impact measurement and management in capital markets.

Prior to J.P. Morgan, Arsalan was a manager within McKinsey’s Economic Development Practice, where he advised governments on national development plans and industrial policy. 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.

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.

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.

Jiten is responsible for covering development and multilateral institutions and making use of their mobilization products to originate sustainable development transactions for clients in emerging markets, in conjunction with J.P. Morgan’s product teams. Jiten closely collaborates with the J.P. Morgan DFI in structuring “blended finance transactions,” which include incorporating capital from development and multilateral institutions with those of impact-focused institutional investors.

Jiten started his career in J.P. Morgan’s Securitized Products Group where he was responsible for originating, structuring and distributing structured finance products for European and emerging market clients. He has over 17 years of experience working with development banks, financial institutions, sponsors and corporate clients. Jiten studied Physics and Philosophy at the University of Oxford.

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.