EBRD Board of Directors visits Morocco

A senior delegation from the EBRD Board of Directors will visit Morocco from Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October.

The five-day visit will provide shareholder representatives with the opportunity to meet senior government officials, representatives of the business community, international partners and civil society organisations. The EBRD Board Directors will also visit private and public projects financed by the Bank in Casablanca, the Fez Meknes region and Tangier.

The visit is part of a regular series of consultations that enable EBRD Board Directors to discuss local economic priorities and maintain close dialogue with the authorities and the private sector.

The EBRD Board will be represented by:

• Catherine Stewart, Director for Canada, Morocco, Jordan and Tunisia
• Vanessa MacDougall, Director for the United Kingdom
• Yasemin Girici, Director for Türkiye, Romania, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kyrgyz Republic and Algeria
• Maria Shaw-Barragan, Director for the European Investment Bank
• Elena Aparici, Director for Spain, Mexico, United Arab Emirates and Iraq
• Magnus Rystedt, Director for Sweden, Iceland, Estonia
• Kyunghee Kim, Director for Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Egypt
• Konrad von Hoff, Alternate Director for Germany
• Mikko Autti, Alternate Director for Norway, Finland, Latvia and Lebanon
• José Tavares, Alternate Director for Portugal, Greece, San Marino and India
• Karina Karaivanova, Alternate Director for Poland, Bulgaria and Albania

The EBRD’s senior management accompanying the mission are Mark Davis, Managing Director for the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean Region, and Haytham Eissa, Head of Morocco.

During the visit, the delegation will meet Nadia Fettah, Minister of Economy and Finance and EBRD Governor, Nizar Baraka, Minister of Equipment and Water, Abderrahim Bouazza, Managing Director of the Central Bank of Morocco, Zakaria Hachlaf, General Secretary of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, and Chakib Alj, President of the Confédération Générale des Entreprises du Maroc.

Since the start of its engagement in Morocco in 2012, the EBRD has invested more than €5.8 billion in 123 projects, which include the financing of sustainable energy and infrastructure and the provision of business advice to more than 883 Moroccan small and medium-sized enterprises.