Agathe Gouot is Senior Advisor to FinDev Canada’s Chief Investment Officer, supporting the organization’s growth and investment strategy across Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Indo-Pacific. She is an experienced international development finance professional with more than a decade of experience in private investment in emerging markets with a focus on infrastructure and climate finance.

Prior to joining FinDev Canada, Agathe held a variety of roles in the export and project finance space, originating and structuring debt for infrastructure projects worldwide. She was Director for the Andean region at KfW-IPEX (based out of Sao Paulo and Frankfurt) and brings previous experience working in BNP Paribas CIB structured finance teams (based out of Bogota and Paris). 

Fluent in five languages, Agathe holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree from HEC Montreal and a Master’s Degree (M.A.) in Political Economy from City University in London.