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Deepa Poduval is a Senior Vice President, leading the Global Advisory Practice within Black & Veatch. In this role, she provides executive leadership for Black & Veatch’s Strategic and Digital Advisory Services including support for a wide variety of clients related to transactions due diligence, regulations, business strategy, energy market planning, asset & risk management, operational technologies and infrastructure modernization needs. Clients span governments, and electric, water, oil & gas, commercial, industrial and financial sectors across the Americas, Europe and Asia who seek strategic and technical expertise related to their critical infrastructure as they pursue goals around Sustainability, Growth and Resilience.Deepa also leads Black & Veatch’s strategic solutions related to Decarbonization and serves on Black & Veatch’s DE&I Council. Deepa brings substantial finance, utility, and energy industry knowledge and has advised various clients on strategic responses to key issues impacting their business. These issues recently include creating executable pathways to achieve net-zero objectives incorporating project viability, risk and future growth.