Don De Amicis joined OPIC in 2011, and has more than 25 years of legal experience in the finance, corporate, and restructuring area, in the private and public sectors. Prior to joining OPIC, he was a senior partner at the international law firm Ropes & Gray where he represented some of the nation’s largest financial institutions and investment funds. 

At OPIC, Don manages a legal department that supports the agency’s main business lines in finance (direct loans and investment guarantees), political risk insurance, and investment funds, and provides advice with respect to administrative and regulatory matters.  He acts as Board counsel to OPIC’s board of directors, comprised of public and private sector members.  Don represents OPIC in USG interagency matters and on issues involving multilateral and bilateral development finance institutions.

Long active in the American Bar Association, Don has served on the ABA’s Board of Governors, the Latin American and Caribbean Law Initiative Council, the Center for Human Rights, and as chairman of the Section of International Law.  He has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America and Chambers USA America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, is admitted to the bars of New York, Washington, DC and Massachusetts, as well as numerous federal district and circuit courts.

Don has been a lecturer, writer, and advisor on rule of law issues in developing countries for close to thirty years, and has served on the governing committees of the ABA/United Nations Development Program Legal Resource Center and the Cambodia Law and Democracy Project.

Don is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College.