As Vice President & Treasurer of IFC, a member of the World Bank Group and the largest global development institution focused on the private sector, John Gandolfo leads a global team responsible for managing IFC’s financial position, safeguarding its international triple-A rating, and maintaining its standing as a premier issuer in the global capital markets. He leads IFC’s Treasury and Syndications’ global team in delivering on IFC’s strategy to create markets and mobilize private capital for development. The team manages over $100 billion of liquid assets, global market borrowings, and derivatives transactions and is responsible for strengthening local currency financing by arranging and executing local currency and risk management transactions for clients and raising third-party capital through innovative syndication and mobilization platforms such as the Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program (MCPP). Prior to taking the role of IFC Treasurer, Gandolfo was Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Pension and Endowments Department at the World Bank. His team managed $27 billion of World Bank Group pension and other retirement-benefit portfolios invested across a range of asset classes and strategies.