Odile Renaud-Basso became the seventh President of EBRD in November 2020 following her election by the EBRD’s Board of Governors the previous month.

In her previous role 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 position, she also served as Vice-President of the European Economic and Financial Committee, deputy to the G7 and G20 groups and French Governor or Alternate Governor of the World Bank, EBRD and African Development Bank. She was also Chair of the Paris Club.

Prior to that, she was Deputy Director-General of the Caisse des Dépôts, a large French public financial institution.

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