Leocadia I. Zak, Deputy Director
Ms. Zak is Deputy Director at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). Since 2000, she has been a member of the Director's senior management team in advancing USTDA's commercially-oriented foreign assistance program. Prior to being named the Deputy Director at the beginning of 2006, Ms. Zak served as General Counsel. She also served as Acting Director of USTDA prior to the arrival of Director Larry W. Walther in March 2008.
Before joining USTDA, Ms. Zak was a partner in the Washington, D.C. and Boston offices of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. practicing in the areas of corporate, municipal and international finance. She has served as counsel in connection with a variety of project finance transactions for energy, transportation, health care, telecommunications and tourism projects. In private practice, Ms. Zak focused her attention on innovative financing programs involving U.S. government agency financings for international projects, as well as financings by other bilateral and multilateral agencies.
Ms. Zak is an Adjunct Professor of Law and has taught "International Project Finance" at the Boston University School of Law, Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law Studies and at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Ms. Zak received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law.
