Kent Hiteshew spent more than 30 years as a banker in the municipal bond market, most recently with JP Morgan. He was the inaugural Director of the Office of State and Local Finance within the US Treasury where he was a primary author of federal legislation governing the oversight and restructuring of Puerto Rico's $70B of debt. He was also a key architect of the Federal Reserve's $500B Municipal Loan Facility din response to the 2020 COVID market disruption.