Andrea Emily Stumpf is a true believer in the benefits of inclusive collaboration and the synergies of structured partnerships, particularly in the international arena. She supports international partnership initiatives through her business, Structured Partnerships, based in the Washington, DC area.
Andrea's experience draws from fifteen years at the World Bank, where she was Lead Counsel in the Legal Department. During this time, she worked with hundreds of partners on hundreds of partnership programs, large and small, mostly with trust funds, as an acknowledged expert in partnership program design and trust fund operations. She also supported Bank loan operations in Africa and the Middle East. Andrea continues to advise clients at the World Bank, in addition to supporting a variety of other clients.
Prior to joining the World Bank, Andrea worked in the private sector for thirteen years as inhouse counsel and in law firms. Andrea handled legal matters for three global telecommunications companies, including support of multiple subsidiaries in emerging markets, complex commercial negotiations, and compliance aspects. Before that, Andrea worked at two major international law firms, in Shearman & Sterling’s Paris and New York offices and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius’s New York office. In her law firm practice, she participated in cutting edge global securities offerings and complex, multi-party mergers and acquisitions for major multinational corporations.
Andrea has a JD from Yale Law School and a double major BA with honors in international studies and German from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.