Shelley De Souza is a Director in the Investment and Advisory team at National Wealth Fund, where she leads business development of the Water and Sustainable Aviation Fuel sectors. She has extensive experience in project finance. Before joining NWF she spent 14 years in the infrastructure team at Japanese Bank Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, closing a number of waste-to-energy projects as well as other social infrastructure PFI / PPP transactions. She has also held roles at German Landesbank Helaba and Abbey National Treasury Services (now Santander UK).