board of directors

Cathleen McLaughlin was elected as a Director on June 13, 2024. She is a retired partner of Paul Hastings LLP, where she practiced in the firm’s Corporate Finance group at its New York office from 2015 to 2023.

Ms. McLaughlin has more than three decades of experience working on capital markets transactions in the Caribbean and Latin America, including initial public offerings, high yield debt offerings, project bonds, securitization and sovereign bond issuances. Prior to her time at Paul Hastings, Ms. McLaughlin was the head of the International Capital Markets practice of Allen & Overy LLP in New York, where she founded and co-headed the firm’s Latin America practice. Ms. Mclaughlin is a Director and Finance Committee member of the Church Street School of Music and Art, a music and art school in Tribeca, New York, and is a former Director of the governing body of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice. Ms. McLaughlin previously served as a director of MicroDreams Foundation, a non-profit microfinance accelerator organisation in Samoa, Tonga, Fiji and the Solomon Islands.

She also previously served as a director of Allen & Overy LLP’s Global Board. Ms. McLaughlin holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania.