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Eliza Mathews

Eliza is an experienced banking professional with more than 15 years in institutional banking, across debt products including sustainable finance, project finance and export finance. In her current role as Head of Infrastructure, Eliza leads Westpac’s infrastructure sector involvement, with responsibility for strategy and customer relationship. Eliza has worked in Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, covering a broad range of customers and investors across Australia and the Asia-Pacific. In her prior role, Eliza led the bank’s Sustainable Finance team, and was at the forefront of Australia’s sustainable-finance market, partnering with customers on a number of successful market “firsts”, and supporting customer ambition to transition to net zero. Eliza holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts.
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