Jay Collins is Vice Chairman, Banking and Public Sector in Citi's Senior Client Group. He has advised, structured, and executed complex and innovative transactions for both corporate and sovereign clients in over 60 countries across each of the major product areas of Citi. Jay is the firm's senior banker for global governments.

Jay has held various leadership positions for Citi over the past 27 years, including Global Head of Citi's Public Sector Group, Global Head of Infrastructure Finance, Head of Global Banking for Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, Chair of the Emerging Markets Investment Banking Committee, Deputy Head of Nikko Citigroup's Investment Banking Division, and Chief Operating Officer for the Latin America region. He has been a Senior Credit Officer of the firm since 2006.

Jay has advised governments at times of great financial duress, including Egypt, Argentina, Greece, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Belize, Ecuador, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Jamaica, working on over $85 billion of sovereign debt restructurings. He has executed over $100 billion of privatizations around the world and across sectors, from NTT DoCoMo in Japan and Tupras in Turkey to Bank of Alexandria in Egypt and Hellinikon in Greece.

Jay led the team of 27 Citi bankers as sole financial and risk advisor to the Global Alliance for Vaccines (GAVI) and the COVAX Facility during the Covid-19 pandemic and acted as climate finance advisor to the Egyptian government for COP27. Jay has worked on marquee M&A and equity transactions including the creation of Guidant, Mittal and Shinsei Bank. Jay has advised Central Banks throughout his career; he served as the confidential advisor to a number of Central Banks during the great financial crisis and has participated in the Kansas City Fed's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.

Jay is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University where he has taught "Sustainability, Innovation and Technology" at the graduate level for the past six years. During the pandemic, he chaired the Report Committee for the UN Secretary General's Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance. Jay is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the Board of Save the Children, the US Philippines Society, Concordia, the Tent Partnership for Refugees, the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress and Georgetown's School of Foreign Service. He served as Advisor to the Baker Hamilton Commission on the Iraq War, and to the Securities and Commodities Authority of the UAE. In the climate finance space, he served on the Task Force for Voluntary Carbon Markets and represents Citi in the GFANZ Just Energy Transition Partnership process.

Before joining Citi in 1996, Jay worked for Merrill Lynch in the US large-cap Investment Banking Division and before that ran Government Relations for the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He has a Master of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Colorado College. He has written on and spoken to a wide range of cabinets, boards, and official organizations, including to the United Nations, the G20, the Paris Club and MDB boards on a myriad of topics including climate and development finance; illicit financial flows and cyber security; digital financial inclusion solutions; reserve management policies and issues concerning children and conflict.

Jay speaks Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese. He won the US Institute of Peace "Shield in the Cloud" Award for his work fighting global financial corruption.