Ashok is the Senior Technical Advisor with the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. in Washington, D.C., performing technical, environmental, and financial evaluations of loan applications involving large and complex projects. His background includes project finance transactions on large projects in several countries, including Brazil, China, the Middle East, and India. He has over 30 years experience in the power, petrochemical, and environmental sectors, including work with IWT, Fluor, Bechtel, and operating plants in the U.S. and Middle East. At Fluor, he was the supervisor of the water and wastewater treatment group, and was seconded to Aramco as the construction superintendent at the Ras Tanura Refinery in Saudi Arabia. At Bechtel, he worked on several projects, including the design of two grassroots refineries, and was Bechtel’s sole site representative at the Jim Bridger Power Plant in Wyoming. As supervisor of the chemistry and process group, he worked in an operating power plant with public service electric and gas companies. Ashok is a licensed professional engineer with an MS degree in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, and an MBA. He completed an eight-month executive program in international finance and global markets from Georgetown University, and is author of 25 technical publications.

You can contact Ashok at: ashok.pasricha@exim.gov