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Fuensanta Diaz Cobacho is an experienced senior banker currently structuring project finance transactions throughout the Americas at the Structured Finance Department of Intesa San Paolo in New York. Fuensanta has over 20 years experience in banking and has held senior positions at various institutions, most recently at WestLB and Santander. Fuensanta was Managing Director and Head of Infrastructure for North and Latin America at WestLB’s Global Origination and Syndication Group, where she contributed with her in-depth knowledge of both the Latin and North American markets across the Energy, Infrastructure and Financial Institutions sectors. Fuensanta structured, arranged and financed public and private biddings for infrastructure assets in support of local and global players in the industry. Some recent landmark transactions structured and arranged under her leadership include, among others: Embraport, a greenfield port in Santos, Brazil; PR-22 and PR-5, Puerto Rico’s first toll road concession; the Windsor Essex parkway project in Ontario, Canada; the Port of Miami Tunnel project in Florida, USA; a utility-scale solar project in Ontario, Canada; a police headquarters project in Ontario, Canada; a port project in Buenaventura, Colombia. Fuensanta was also Managing Director and Head of Structured Finance for North America at Santander in New York. She was one of the founding members of the project finance practice at Santander when she joined the Bank in 1998, and went on to become Head of the Latin America Project Finance team in 2001. She joined the Global Financial Institutions Group in 2005 to start its New York-based team and formulate the business strategy for the group with North American-based clients in the financial-insurance sector. In 2007, Fuensanta joined a newly formed Global Credit Markets team to start Santander’s activities in Project and Acquisition Finance in the North American market, specially focusing in the Infrastructure and Renewables sectors. Fuensanta also worked at Paribas and spent the first seven years of her career at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) working in the Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa regions. She holds a Bachelor in Business Administration from the University of Missouri, Saint Louis, and an MBA from the American University in D.C