With the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s annual meeting and business forum this week, Devex spoke to its president, Odile Renaud-Basso, about lending in Belarus, UAE’s membership, a possible expansion to sub-Saharan Africa, and whether the recent Wise Person’s Group process comparing EBRD and the European Investment Bank was a waste of time.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Can you give an example of something you know now that you didn’t know in 2019 when Thomas Wieser was given his brief to examine the European architecture for development finance?
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Vince Chadwick is a contributing reporter at Devex. A law graduate from Melbourne, Australia, he was social affairs reporter for The Age newspaper, before covering breaking news, the arts, and public policy across Europe, including as a reporter and editor at POLITICO Europe. He was long-listed for International Journalist of the Year at the 2023 One World Media Awards.
