Ambroise Fayolle

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK

Ambroise Fayolle has been Vice-President of the European Investment Bank since February 2015.

He is responsible for climate and environment, development issues, and the European Fund for Strategic Investments, also known as the "Juncker Plan", which have mobilised more than EUR 550 billion of investment across the EU between 2015 and 2021.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the European Investment Fund, the EIB's subsidiary dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises, and also oversees the EIB's activities in France, Germany and many countries in Africa and the Pacific.

As head of climate issues at the EIB, he is responsible for ensuring the proper implementation of its climate roadmap adopted at the end of 2019, which aims to mobilise 1 000 billion euros of investment to combat global warming by 2030, with a commitment to devote more than 50% of its financing to this purpose from 2025.

He graduated from Sciences-Po, has a law degree, and studied at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA). He spent most of his career at the French Treasury, where he headed the Agence France Trésor in charge of public debt management, as well as at the IMF and the World Bank in Washington, where he served as a member of the Board of Directors of these two institutions for six years.