Frank Dunlevy serves as a senior adviser with the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to that, he served as chief banking officer and senior adviser to the under secretary for economic growth, energy, and the environment at the Department of State. Mr. Dunlevy has also served in a variety of roles with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), including as counselor to the president and CEO, vice president of the investment funds team, and member of the Investment Committee. He helped guide the transformation of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation into the new DFC and launched its new equity strategy. Mr. Dunlevy also designed its new business effort and played a senior advisory role in strengthening the collaboration with the National Security Council and Defense Department. Prior to his government service, Mr. Dunlevy had 47 years of international investment banking experience, beginning his career in 1971 at The First Boston Corporation. He has rejoined his former firm (Cowen), which has major practices in the health care and technology verticals, as vice chairman of investment banking. At First Boston, he served as senior banker to the European Union, all four of the multilateral development banks, and 11 sovereign countries in Europe and Latin America. He was also a partner at Montgomery Securities and a founder of Thomas Weisel Partners. In addition, he has extensive experience in the energy, industrial, and consumer spaces, and he has lived in the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and China. Mr. Dunlevy received his B.A. from Southern Methodist University and served for 12 years as a member of its Board of Trustees. He was honored as a distinguished alumnus of both the university and its business school. From 1966-68, he served in Vietnam as an enlisted infantryman in the 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions.