Nathalie Louat is the Director of Trade & Supply Chain Finance in the Financial Institutions Group at IFC, based in Washington. Prior to this role she was the Senior Manager in the Financial Institutions Group in charge globally of Insurance, Innovation, Capital Markets, and the Distressed Assets Recovery Program. She was previously a Senior Manager for East Asia and the Pacific Portfolio Operations in the Financial Institutions Group, based in Hong Kong. From 2010 until 2014, Nathalie was supporting IFC’s clients in the financial sector in East Asia Pacific. She managed a $3 billion portfolio with exposure to 90 clients and 150 projects located from Mongolia to the Pacific Islands. From 1999 until 2010, Nathalie worked in IFC’s Structured Finance Department within the Treasury Vice-Presidency. She served on IFC’s Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee and was selected as a member of the World Bank Group’s sounding board for the change management process. Nathalie received the World Bank Group’s Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Award in 2012. Prior to joining IFC, Nathalie pursued a career in Credit Lyonnais’ Securitization Group. She holds a degree from the French School of Statistics and Economics and graduated as an Actuary from the French Institute of Actuarial Studies.