Lalitha Seelam

Lalitha Seelam, CFA, currently serves as Senior Vice President of Global Risk Management Project Finance at Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria since September 2025. Prior to this role, Lalitha was Vice President of Project Finance at BNP Paribas from September 2023 to August 2025 and Vice President of Project Finance in Natural Resources at Mizuho from February 2020 to August 2023. Lalitha's earlier experience includes positions as Associate and Senior Consultant at Advisian, Senior Consultant at Gaffney, Cline & Associates, and Process Engineer at Jacobs Engineering. Academic credentials include an MBA in Finance from IE Business School, an MBA Exchange Programme at UCLA Anderson School of Management, an M.Engg in Chemical Engineering from the National University of Singapore, a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Warangal, and ongoing CFA studies.