Leticia Ferreras Astorqui

Director, Development Finance at Allianz Global Investors

Speaker

Leticia Ferreras Astorqui is a senior portfolio manager in the Allianz Global Investors’ Development Finance team, which manages over USD 3bn of commitments. Leticia joined AllianzGI in July 2020 to help expand AllianzGI’s presence in Emerging Markets (EM) through various development finance strategies. Since joining, Leticia has focused on the fundraising and deployment of the credit-enhanced EM investment strategy (launched in 2021). In addition, she is the Lead Portfolio Manager for an upcoming USD 1Bn blended finance debt vehicle focused on climate solutions in EM (exp. 2024) for which she has been leading the structuring and fundraising.

Prior to joining AllianzGI, Leticia worked at Macquarie Capital focusing on principal investments across energy projects in Latin America. Before that, she was part of the Project Finance team at MUFG Union Bank based out of New York City focusing on infrastructure and energy transactions across the Americas. Leticia holds a B.S. in Political Economy and an International Business Diplomacy Certificate from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.