Raffael Stein
Director, Water Infrastructure Division
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, DC
Raffael Stein is the Director of EPA’s Water Infrastructure Division and oversees the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (SRF) program which has provided over $ 130 billion in assistance since its inception. He is also responsible for the establishment of the recently authorized Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program as well as the new Water Infrastructure & Resiliency Finance Center. Raffael has been with the Agency for over 25 years. During the course of his EPA career he worked as an economist in the Office of Water and served in several management positions in the Agency’s Office of the Chief Financial Officer including Director of EPA’s Office of Financial Services where he was responsible for all of the Agency’s financial operations. Prior to coming to EPA, Raffael was an economist for the Commonwealth of Virginia and a financial analyst in a consulting firm specializing in municipal finance research. He earned a B.A. from Grinnell College and an MPP from Duke University.