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Odile Renaud-Basso

President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Odile Renaud-Basso

Odile Renaud-Basso was elected the seventh 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, 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 WB , EBRD and ADB.
She was also Chair of the Paris Club.

Renaud-Basso is a graduate of the Paris Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po), and an alumna of the École Nationale d’Administration and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.