Elizabeth Yee
VP, Resilience Finance
100 Resilient Cities
As the Vice President of Resilience Finance at 100RC with over 16 years’ experience in public finance, Elizabeth Yee works with 100RC’s member cities and external partners to overcome the financial challenges of resilience project development and implementation, including providing technical support around the financial aspects of project design and leveraging partnerships. Her transaction experience includes the financing of energy distribution and generation assets, roads, water and sewerage, solid waste facilities, not-for-profit hospitals, and the development of pension financing solutions. Prior to joining 100RC, Yee co-led the Public Power and Utilities Team at Barclays where her team won Bond Buyer Deal of the Year and Far West Deal of the Year for their innovation in financing the 200 MW Milford Wind Corridor Project for the Southern California Public Power Authority and its members – Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, Burbank Water & Power and Pasadena Water & Power. Yee was also jointly responsible for leading the pension and post-employment benefits practice at Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers. She received a bachelor of arts in International Relations and German from the University of Pennsylvania.