Paula Swain is in the Structured and Project Finance Division of EXIM Bank and her career focus is energy and the oil and gas value chain. She has financed or raised financing for many Project Finance Magazine’s Deals of the Year and specializes in Mexico, large energy project financings including LNG and national oil companies. Most recently, she worked on the EXIM approval and amendment of Mozambique LNG. Her office is in Houston. Paula originally joined EXIM Bank in 1992 and was in the newly formed Project Finance Division before her return to the private sector in Texas in 2000. Prior to rejoining EXIM Bank in 2011, Paula was with El Paso Corporation (former Fortune 500, acquired by Kinder Morgan) for ten years where she financed El Paso’s power and pipeline projects in Mexico, Panama, Brazil and China, U.S. regulated pipelines and a U.S. LNG regas facility in addition to supporting merger and acquisitions, implementation of a Master Limited Partnership (MLP), project development and treasury activities. Paula earned a B.S. Political Science degree from the University of Houston. She is a native Houstonian and a crazed Astros Baseball fan.