Perseverance and Resilience: Rebuilding Ukraine
Channel: IIEA
Date: 2022-11-14

In her address to the IIEA, Odile Renaud-Basso, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), assesses how the international community and international financial institutions (IFIs) can support Ukraine in such dire times. President Renaud-Basso also outlines the EBRD’s response to the Russian invasion, as well the role that the EBRD can play in rebuilding Ukraine in the future.

About the Speaker:

Odile Renaud-Basso was elected the 7th President of EBRD on 2 November 2020 by the EBRD’s Board of Governors and is the first ever female head of a multilateral development bank. Prior to joining the EBRD, as Director General at the French Treasury, Ms Renaud-Basso oversaw the development of France’s economic policies, leading on European and international financial affairs, trade policies, financial regulation and debt management. In this capacity she also served as Vice-President of the European Economic and Financial Committee, deputy to the G7/G20 groups and French Governor or Alternate Governor of the World Bank, EBRD and Asian Development Bank. She was also Chair of the Paris Club.

Recorded on the 14th of November 2022