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Homepage of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. We build stronger and greener economies across three continents.

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Lise Bruynooghe

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Thinking Partner to Trailblazing Leaders | Master Certified, Pioneering Nature & Systems Coach | Board Member ICF Global Enterprise & Former President ICF UK

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CEO @Alma | Reimagining legal immigration | Harvard Law

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Digital marketing growth, crypto and fintech, NFTs, LATAM startup ecosystem, ex VC professional with a passion for financial services transformation, digital campaigns, tech, design, lean execution, kpi implementation, crypto and investments with a true beneficial impact on society

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Driving the distributed renewable energy revolution with 15+ years experience in energy, environment, and development finance.

Miguel Sánchez de Pedro

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Senior Partner and founder of OxValue Advisers SL, a management consulting firm, specialising in advisory services to financial intermediaries, small and medium enterprises and fintech startup ventures. A thoughtful financial professional with a 50+yr banking expertise, and international career as an adviser to the World Bank, EBRD, IFC, IADB, the EU as well as government institutions and the private sector. Lead projects and teams in Albania, Belarus, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Namibia, Panama, Peru, Poland, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Advisory undertakings include privatisations, startups coaching, corporate restructuring, equity investments, financial due diligence, banking regulations, corporate finance, business valuations, and hands-on institutional building. Available for outside Director positions in which I may bring particular value to the Board including the provision of the following advisory services: Corporate finance, SMEs and Fintech startups coaching, investment banking, business valuations, corporate restructuring, business development, financial due diligence, business planning, funds raising and privatisations. On-demand financial and strategic advisory to small and medium-sized enterprises, venture capital firms, hedge funds, private equity corporates, family offices, and professional investors, leveraging on the experience, knowledge, resources and the global network of institutions and peer associates that I have accumulated over the years. Adherence to strong ethics, transparency and trust are the fundamental values that govern my business relationships.

Konstantin Kraus

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I structure high-value deals and build strategic partnerships in fintech and digital assets, helping institutions unlock opportunities others often miss. I lead institutional engagement across EMEA with trading firms, asset allocators including funds, family offices, ETPs, and foundations, as well as banks, fintechs, and payment service providers. I operate where institutional sales, business development, digital assets, and board-level strategy intersect. With over a decade of experience helping institutions scale and capture opportunities early, I turn complex challenges into measurable growth. I partner with CEOs, chief growth officers, chief revenue officers, commercial executives, and board members, serving as a trusted advisor on market expansion, regulatory guidance, and business growth.

Elias Habbar-Baylac

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I’m a climate and sustainability + venture investment leader at Cisco, driving our work at the intersection of venture capital, impact innovation, and sustainability strategy, under the leadership of a stellar team - Francine Katsoudas (EVP), Mary de Wysocki (Chief Sustainability Officer), and Kelsi Doran (Senior Strategy Director). As Co-Founder and Partner of the Cisco Foundation’s Regenerative Future Fund ($50M+), I’ve led 15+ early-stage climate investments in climate tech startups across carbon, energy, resilience, and nature, including Terradot (enhanced rock weathering), Chloris Geospatial (forestry AI & satellite), CarbonBuilt (low-carbon cement), Ecotone Renewables (food waste), and Alchemy CO₂ (carbon utilization). I also developed Cisco’s first holistic sustainability investment strategy, working across Cisco Investments and Corporate Development to drive strategic deals in clean energy, circularity, and infrastructure resilience. Within Cisco’s Purpose & Sustainability Strategy team, I lead on the innovation and market-based solutions side — helping the company meet its climate goals through emerging technologies, strategic partnerships, and product alignment + elevating our philanthropic climate innovation work. Earlier, I worked at Microsoft (sustainability industry strategy), EQT Partners (impact investing), and Third Sphere (seed-stage climate tech). I also held investment and policy roles at private equity fund British International Investment, the European Bank (EBRD), and the United Nations' Development Programme. I hold degrees from Columbia University, Sciences Po Paris, and an MBA + Environmental Engineering diploma from UC Berkeley, and have been recognized as a Bleustein-Blanchet laureate, Max Planck Institute fellow, and CELI Fellow. Born in Paris and now based in San Francisco, I’m passionate about sustainable and impactful solutions that scale — and always up for good food, art, or a mountain escape.

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With over 10 years of senior management leadership and more than 15 years of hands-on experience in financial risk management, I am specialized in implementing best-in-class risk management frameworks providing financial institutions with strong revenue protection and ability to extract new value from existing clients’ relationship. Having worked in different business environments (financial services of global manufacturers, global and privately-owned domestic banks) I gained practical skills of managing risks at “entity level” as well as at “group-level” consisting of following components: - corporate governance set-up to provide optimal balance of senior management involvement in setting-up targets (risk tolerance/appetite, risk-based performance metrics) and scalable decision-making process (with proper controls embedded into them making sure that each transaction is contributing an adequate risk-return to meet the strategic goals at portfolio levels); - building up risk-management teams able to support Board Members in strategy development and its execution at all levels of organization; - diversified risk limits, risk policies and risk-reporting standards for all products/businesses-lines (retail, SME, corporate, trading an, treasury) as well as risk types (corporate credit risk, counterparty credit risk, market risk for trading and investment portfolios, ALM and operational risk) – needed to effectively manage revenue, P&L volatility and cost of risk targets, as well as to address the regulatory and IFRS challenges; - up-to-date risk management tools based on advanced data analytics including risk-modelling, risk-based pricing and cross-selling techniques; - development and implementation of IT systems to support risk management tools, underwriting, collection, limits controls and other risk-related processes.

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Founder @ Conductor | TS/SCI, Applied Math, Economics