Dianne Rudo

Introduction

Dianne Rudo is an investment banker and financial consultant with experience in international and domestic project and corporate finance transactions. Ms. Rudo is Principal of her own international financial services firm, Rudo International, based in Washington, DC. She is also a member of the Technical Advisory Panel for the Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) – a World Bank firm that grants funds to infrastructure projects seeking and facilitating public-private partnerships – and a member of Technical Panel for the Program Management Unit of the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) – a public-private financing firm in the business of promoting the private sector and investing in public-private infrastructure projects.

History

Before Rudo International, Ms. Rudo was the vice-president and head of the project finance division of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. She also worked as an investment banker and vice president at the investment firm Drexel Burnham Lambert where, as it is reported on her Rudo International bio, she advised “corporate finance clients in the independent power industry on public offerings, private placements and project financings. Her experience includes originating, structuring, and negotiating project finance, secured asset, limited partnerships and leveraged lease transactions.” Her ‘philosophical approach’ to financing infrastructure projects, as noted in the same bio, promotes “commercially viable infrastructure development.”

Rudo International

Rudo International is a “international infrastructure advisory firm, specializing in project finance, private sector investment, capacity building and institutional development in the emerging markets”.