Wendy Franklin

  • Joined Mercator Advisors in 2008 as Senior Advisor
  • Serves as Director of Finance Programs for AASHTO’s Center for Excellence in Project Finance, managing executive education programs, legislative workshops and other activities
  • 26 years experience in public finance investment banking at Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers, specializing in transportation finance
  • Assembled major financings for such agencies as New York Thruway Authority, Kansas Department of Transportation, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, New Hampshire Turnpike System, New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Arizona Department of Transportation
  • Member, Finance Committee, Baggage Screening Investment Study (TSA)
  • Transportation Research Board project panels for surface transportation and aviation research
  • Education: Yale University, 1981, School of Management (MPPM); Harvard University, 1975, M. Ed; and Allegheny College, 1972, B.A. in French