Full Name
Jill Dauchy
Job Title
Founder and CEO
Company
Potomac Group
Speaker Bio
Ms. Dauchy’s career as a trusted advisor to sovereigns and public entities spans nearly twenty years and over a dozen countries throughout Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. She has focused on issues of debt sustainability and restructuring, as well as strategies for stimulating growth, ensuring market access, and infrastructure financing. She is committed to protecting the immediate and long term interests of her clients. Since founding Potomac Group, Ms. Dauchy has provided support to a multitude of sovereigns, international institutions, and also public and private sector businesses with respect to debt negotiations, climate finance, and PPP projects. She also serves as an external expert to the IMF in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department. She is a member of the Principles Consultative Group and the Committee for Debt Transparency of the Institute of International Finance.



Ms. Dauchy began her career in finance at Swiss Bank Corporation on the Emerging Markets fixed income trading floor in New York City. Following the bank’s acquisition of S.G. Warburg & Co and subsequent merger with UBS, she moved to London and joined its well-known sovereign advisory team. She continued to collaborate with members of that team for over 15 years until returning to the US in 2015. Prior to forming Potomac Group, Ms. Dauchy was Managing Director at Millstein & Co.



Ms. Dauchy earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business and an M.A. in International Studies from the Lauder Institute, both of the University of Pennsylvania. She also received a B.A. in Soviet/Russian studies from Barnard College of Columbia University. She is fluent in French and Russian.