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Akash Deep is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy specializing in finance at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and co-chair of the Indian Administrative Service Executive Education program. His expertise lies in financial risk management and derivatives, infrastructure finance, and the management and regulation of banks, financial institutions, and pension funds. His research has focused on hedging price and currency risk using derivative securities, the design of privatization and project financing structures, and risk management at banks.

Professor Deep has provided advice on bank restructuring, infrastructure financing, capital markets reform and pension funds to various governments and firms around the world, and his work has been cited in journals and international publications such as the Financial Times and the Boston Globe. He has worked in the financial institutions and infrastructure section of the Bank for International Settlements, and served as consultant and expert for the World Bank, the United Nations and the Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee. At Harvard, he teaches financial investments, risk management and infrastructure finance in the degree and executive programs. He has also led executive development programs at the National University of Singapore, Goldman Sachs, the World Bank, EBRD and the Inter-American Development Bank, amongst others.

Certified Financial Risk Manager by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, Akash Deep holds a PhD in economics and MA in operations research from Yale University, and a bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology.

Dianne Rudo is a senior investment banker and financial consultant with over 25 years of international and domestic project and corporate finance transactional experience, having held senior positions in both the public and private sector. She has extensive experience in all technical aspects of project finance transactions, including credit and risk analysis and the use of guarantees and other risk mitigation instruments for infrastructure transactions worldwide.  Ms. Rudo also has over 15 years of training and knowledge transfer experience within the work environment as well as with academic institutions.  She has authored several papers on project financing and related topics.

Prior to founding her own firm, Ms. Rudo established and ran, as Vice President, the Project Finance Division of the Export-Import Bank of the United States where she was responsible for Board authorizations for project finance cases worldwide, representing transactions valued in excess of $20 billion. Before joining the US Government, Ms. Rudo worked as an investment banker on Wall Street.  As a first vice president and partner at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the corporate finance department, she advised corporate finance clients in the independent power industry on public and private securities offerings and project financings. Her experience includes originating, structuring, and negotiating project finance, secured asset, and leveraged lease transactions.

• Consulting assignments include;
• Several evaluations of the infrastructure financing initiatives (including Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund, GuarantCo, a long term, local currency guarantee product, DevCo, an IFC trust Fund for advisory services as well as of the PIDG itself) for the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) which represents a consortium of six European development aid agencies.
• Advising on a range of international financing transactions for Taylor-Dejongh Inc., a global financial advisory firm including the commercial development and financing of a LNG project in Papua New Guinea.
• Providing advice and policy development to the US ExIm Bank on project finance restructurings, and the creation and implementation of a portfolio-monitoring system for structured finance, corporate finance and transportation transactions;
  Developing and implementing internal seminars as well as an e-training course on the World Bank’s guarantee products for the Project Finance and Guarantees Department of the World Bank;
• Conducting multiple missions and desk studies evaluating the feasibility of infrastructure projects (ports, roads, power plants, airports) for the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (US TDA);
• Advising as the Infrastructure and project finance specialist on advisory team for the China Development Bank, on the institutional strengthening of their credit methodologies and processes for sub-sovereign, corporate and project finance loans for infrastructure projects (power, toll roads, ports).
• Evaluating and providing a study on the business impact of a potential change in their Convention for the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) as part of an overall strategic review of the organization’s business operations and facilitated focus group sessions with agency’s clients and partners.

Ms. Rudo has also provided custom credit training courses in infrastructure finance, credit analysis and project finance structuring to public and private sector professionals worldwide.

Ms. Rudo is a member of the Technical Advisory Panel of the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Fund (PPIAF). She has an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University and a B.A. in Economics and French from Tufts University. She is proficient in French and Spanish.

E.R. Yescombe has been an independent consultant on project finance and PPPs / PFI since 1998. Work has included advice to project sponsors and government entities on power, infrastructure and PPP / PFI projects, as well as training courses in these fields. Recent clients have included:
   -    Partnerships UK (work, inter alia, on various policy issues,
        standardisation of PFI contracts, and specific PFI projects, including
        Argyll & Bute Schools NPDO, winner of the Public- Private Finance
        2006 Award for Innovation), and
   -    European Investment Bank (for an Evaluation of PPP Projects).

He has some 30 years’ experience in various forms of structured finance, including project finance, leasing, export credits, real estate and asset finance. He is the author of “Principles of Project Finance”, published in 2002 (reprinted 2006; translated into Japanese (2006) and Polish (2007); Russian and Hungarian translations in process). The book is intended as both an introduction to project finance and a working handbook for those involved in any aspect of a project. It is recognized as a standard work on the subject, and used in various business-school courses. His second book, “Public-Private Partnerships: Principles of Policy and Finance” was published in 2007.
 
He was previously head of project finance for Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi in London, and its predecessor Bank of Tokyo (then the largest international Japanese bank). His work included advising on and arranging finance for projects in sectors such as power generation, infrastructure, telecommunications and natural resources, as well as in leasing, aircraft finance and real estate finance. Before working for Bank of Tokyo and its predecessor banks in London, he worked for Grindlays Bank Group in London, India and Singapore. He is a law graduate of Oxford University.