As Director General of PSOD, Ms. Chatterton leads the department’s strategic direction to catalyze sustainable private investment across the Asia and Pacific region. Her mandate includes strengthening innovation, scaling development impact, and deepening collaboration with the private sector and key partners to accelerate progress toward inclusive growth and climate resilience.
Ms. Chatterton has more than three decades of global experience in infrastructure, private sector development, and international development finance. She has held a succession of high-impact leadership roles at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank, including leading IFC’s infrastructure investment platform across Asia, overseeing a team of 100 professionals, and delivering significant growth in private capital mobilization across emerging markets. Earlier, she headed IFC’s public-private partnership (PPP) advisory practice across Asia, pioneering new infrastructure sectors, innovative transaction models, and strategic partnerships with development finance institutions, including ADB.
A dual national of Spain and Colombia, her global perspective is grounded in over 12 years of leadership experience in Asia, including extended tenures in Singapore and India, where she helped position IFC as a leading partner in infrastructure finance. Ms. Chatterton has also held key roles across World Bank Group operations in the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia, as well as in subnational finance and in the private sector as a Senior Consultant with WS Atkins in the UK.
Ms. Chatterton holds a Doctorate in Commerce and an MBA in International Business (with Distinction) from the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad de los Andes.
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