Isabel has over 25 years of experience in infrastructure finance in emerging markets. During her IFC career she served as IFC Regional Manager for Public-Private Partnerships, a position she held for seven years. Initially, she covered South Asia from her base in Delhi, India. Later, she moved to Singapore as her mandate expanded to cover the Asia Pacific region. Other IFC roles include a four-year tenure in the Subnational Finance unit, where she worked on deal origination, structuring, and supervision of debt and structured finance products in more than six Latin American countries.
Before joining IFC, Isabel held various positions in World Bank Group operations, including in the urban sector in the Middle East and North Africa region, the water sector in Latin America, and the transport, power, and urban sector in South Asia. Previously, Ms. Chatterton worked as a Senior Management Consultant for WS Atkins in the UK focusing on emerging markets, Western Europe, and infrastructure finance in Argentina, Barbados, Thailand, Europe, Qatar, and the UK. A civil engineer by training, Isabel holds an MBA and a PhD from the University of Birmingham, U.K.