Speaker Profile

Niki is a senior emerging market structured finance specialist with 17 years of global, cross-sector experience in origination, development, and execution. She has raised billions of dollars of development finance institution debt, equity, guarantees, and political risk insurance for projects in energy, infrastructure, retail, financial services, real estate and hospitality, logistics, conservation & climate, and others. In 2023, Niki joined the Sustainable Debt team of The Nature Conservancy, the world’s largest conservation non-governmental organization, where she leads large-scale sovereign financings in the global emerging markets to unlock funds for climate and biodiversity. As a part of her role, she successfully led the closing of the Gabon Blue Bond in 2023. She has a Masters in Finance from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University. Niki obtained security licenses and held FINRA - SIE, 79, 63, 82, 24.