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J. Robert Sheppard
Title: | Adjunct Professor |
Department: | Department of Finance Darla Moore School of Business |
Email: | projfin@bellsouth.net |
Resources: | Curriculum Vitae [pdf] |

Background
J. Robert Sheppard Jr. previously served as co-head of the Global Project Finance
Group at Bank of America, where his work covered syndicated bank loans, private placements,
capital markets and a wide variety of financial advisory assignments. Currently, he
is co-chair of the Infrastructure Experts Group, an organization established under
the auspices of the United Nations. In early September 2010, he was named a visiting scholar
at Stanford University's Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects. CRGP is an
interdisciplinary center that includes faculty from engineering, management, environmental
studies, economics, sociology and law. The appointment ran from September 2010 through
2011. As an undergraduate, Sheppard was a Morehead Scholar at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he later received a master's degree in European history,
a law degree and an MBA. He is an attorney licensed in North Carolina.
Sheppard has advised private sector companies, multilateral development banks and
governments on developing and financing infrastructure projects. He has served as
a consultant to the World Bank, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency and the
United Nations. He has extensive firsthand experience managing and executing project
finance transactions in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. As a consultant,
he has worked with several African governments. Sheppard has written extensively on
managing the foreign exchange risks of infrastructure financing, and his papers in
this area have been published by the World Bank and the United Nations.
Education
J.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1982
MBA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1982
M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1971
B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1969