Senior Director – Partner

bio

Léonie is Senior Director & Partner at Vauban Infrastructure Partners in the New York office, spearheading Vauban’s expansion in the North American market. She is actively involved in strategy, origination and execution of US investments, and in active asset management with a focus on value creation strategies. She brings 20+ years of experience across Europe and the Americas in the energy transition, transportation and digital infrastructure sectors. Previously, she was Managing Partner at New York based Latitude Advisory, a firm she co-founded providing infrastructure and energy advisory to public and private sector clients, and served as Senior Advisor at the Rockefeller Foundation in the Global Policy & Advocacy team. Earlier, Léonie spent 15+ years in Project Finance lending and financial advisory at Natixis and Scotiabank, where she successfully originated, structured, and executed complex transactions for infrastructure and energy assets in Europe, the US, and Latin America. She also co-headed and built the higher education and healthcare team at CIFG, a triple-A rated bond insurer in the US Public Finance capital markets.

academic background

Léonie holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, studied at the Stanford GSB, and is a graduate of the Business School ESCP Europe. She also holds a Masters in History from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

languages

She is fluent in English and French.