Douglas Midland

Douglas Midland is the Regional Managing Director of the DFC’s Manila office, overseeing the agency’s business development and origination activities across debt, equity, and political risk insurance products
in the Philippines & Pacific Islands. 

He is based in Manila. Prior to his appointment as DFC Representative in Manila, Douglas served 4 years as the Managing Director for Indonesia. Douglas comes from DFC’s finance division where he underwrote financing for eligible projects across a range of sectors and geographies. As part of his longstanding work to advance the U.S. Government’s Indo-Pacific strategy, Douglas was sent to Tokyo, Japan in 2019 on a 9-month assignment to serve as Director of the
DFC’s initiative to enhance our coordination and co-financing with Japanese and Australian counterparts.

Prior to joining OPIC (the DFC’s predecessor) in 2014, Douglas worked at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York, spending time in both the private banking group for high net-worth individuals and family L.P.’s, and middle markets institutional sales and trading. Douglas worked as a graduate research assistant on the Consulting Services team at the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA) in between his time at OPIC and Morgan Stanley while completing his Master’s degree. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Mandarin Chinese and East Asian History from Georgetown University, which included a one-year term at Beijing University, and a Master’s of Arts in International Relations and Economics from John’s Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).