Angelo Dell’Atti

IFC, The World Bank Group, Bulgaria, General Manager, PEP-SE Infrastructure-Private Enterprise Partnership for Southeast Europe

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Angelo is the General Manager of the IFC’s Private Enterprise Partnership Southeast Europe Infrastructure (PEP SE Infrastructure) which provides advisory services for the structuring and implementation of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in all infrastructure sub-sectors. PEP SE Infrastructure’s mission is to help the public sector in South East Europe increase private participation and investment in infrastructure, contributing to the economic development in the region. PEP-Southeast Europe Infrastructure will serve the entire South East Europe region from its main office in Sofia, Bulgaria. Angelo is also the Team Leader in the global Advisory Department of IFC’s with responsibility for Central and Eastern Europe.

He has extensive experience in the marketing, structuring and implementation of PPPs, privatization and financing of infrastructure projects and has undertaken several roles in more than 30 projects in over 25 countries, in transition economies, the Americas, Africa, Europe and Asia. He has direct experience in municipal services, transport, energy and telecommunications infrastructure.

Before joining IFC in 2002, Angelo was a director at the Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux group, where he was responsible for international finance. He was in charge of the evaluation and financial structuring of Public Private Partnership projects for water companies in several countries including, inter alia: the water company of the city of Manaus, the first privatization in the sector in Brazil; the water company of Santiago de Chile; and the water company of Budapest, where he also structured the financing of this acquisition, the first ever long-term limited-recourse financing in Hungarian Forint in the country. He organized and closed the financial structuring for the first privatization in the water sector in Italy for a region comprising 37 cities. He has structured and negotiated an investment fund for the projects of the Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux group in Latin America, ensuring the participation of key international equity investors. He has also been a member of the Executive committee for several investments related to the environment, power and telecommunications sectors. Similarly, he has been an advisor to the president of the group for specific missions in the water and telecommunications sectors, on international economic relations issues and on relations with multilateral financial institutions.

Before working in the private sector, Angelo was a Principal Banker for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) where he participated in the financing of several infrastructure projects the telecommunications, transport and municipal services sectors in countries such as Albania, Byelorussia, Macedonia, Poland, Rumania, Slovenia and Ukraine. He has structured and closed the first Public Private Partnership financing in the municipal infrastructure sector for EBRD, a project for gas distribution in 6 municipalities in Slovenia. He established and managed the EBRD office in Slovenia where he actively participated in discussion with the Government in relation to the reform of the power, telecommunications and transportation sectors.

Angelo started his career at J.P. Morgan in international capital markets in the issue and distribution of debt- and capital-financing instruments. He graduated in Business Administration at the Universitá L. Bocconi in Milan and holds a Master in European Economy from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.