"Oregon State Treasury's Review of the Columbia River Crossing Financial Plan"

Laura Lockwood-McCall

Director of the Debt Management Division

Oregon State Treasury

Brief Bio

Laura Lockwood-McCall is the Director of the Debt Management Division in the Oregon State Treasury.  In this capacity, she oversees the structuring and sale of approximately $2 billion annually in various general obligation, revenue, and conduit bonds issued by the State of Oregon and its various state agencies, for various capital projects under construction around the state.

Other duties include coordinating the State’s rating agency, disclosure, and investor relations functions;  monitoring of the debt issuance activities of Oregon’s local governments; and making recommendations to the State Treasurer, the Governor and the State Legislature on various debt financing matters under consideration by the State.  Ms. Lockwood-McCall also prepares annual reports on the State’s general fund and lottery debt capacity and serves as the State Treasurer’s representative on Oregon’s Private Activity Bond Allocation Committee, Municipal Debt Advisory Committee, and the Infrastructure Finance Authority.

Prior to her appointment to this post in 2004, Ms. Lockwood-McCall served for many years as a public finance officer in local governments in

Californiaand Floridaand at the state level in Virginia. All told, Ms. Lockwood-McCall has overseen the coordination, sale and issuance of over $25 billion in municipal bonds and notes for a wide array of state and local government projects around the country.

Luncheon Topic

“Oregon State Treasury’s Review of the Columbia River Crossing Financial Plan”