Ms. Erica Ehst is the Vice President leading the Office of Energy at the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), the U.S. Government’s Development Finance Institution. Ms. Ehst finances energy, infrastructure and other projects in emerging market countries, evaluating their financing proposals, and developing and structuring project opportunities across multiple industries for over 10 years at DFC. Prior to joining DFC, Ms. Ehst worked at Marriott International evaluating development finance opportunities and hotel opportunities. Prior to Marriott, Ms. Ehst was a Vice President at Allied Capital Corporation and was responsible for structuring and negotiating mezzanine finance and private equity transactions across an array of industries. Prior to Allied, Ms. Ehst worked at Duke Capital Partners providing mezzanine debt to energy companies and at Banc of America Securities on the Energy and Power mergers and acquisition team.
Ms. Ehst graduated with honors with a M.B.A from Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and a certificate in International Diplomacy from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. Ms. Ehst graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Emory University.