Dafna Tapiero
Executive Director
Areas of Specialty
Private Equity
Technology
Strategy
Financial Communications
Crisis Management
Philanthropy
ESG and Sustainable Investment
about
Dafna Tapiero is an Executive Director at Basilinna. She is also the Co-Founder of Laurel Strategies. Dafna’s areas of expertise include private equity, alternatives, technology, and family office clients, among others. She focuses on strategy, financial communications, leadership profile-raising, crisis management, and philanthropy, as well as ESG and sustainable investment. For over 20 years, Dafna served as an official at the World Bank Group and its International Finance Corporation, working on privatization in the Former Soviet Union. Following the Asian Financial Crisis, she founded and managed the Financial Sector Reform and Strengthening (FIRST) Initiative, a US$66 million global fund established to provide direct support to countries in reforming and developing their financial systems.