Ambroise Fayolle was appointed Vice-President of the European Investment Bank in February 2015. He is currently responsible for climate action and environment, development policy, and is Board member of the European Investment Fund. He also oversees the activities of the Bank in France, Germany and many countries in Africa and of the Pacific Ocean. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), he spent most of his career in various positions at the French Treasury Department and in the IMF and the World Bank, including as a Board member of the two institutions for 6 years.

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Joachim started his professional career end of1983 as a management trainee at J.P. Morgan and spent time in Treasury, Fixed Income and M&A before he left. After 6 years with DeutscheBank he joined Credit Suisse as Co-Head Investment Banking Germany. In 2004 he joined BNP Paribas where he became Country Head, responsible for building up market position of BNP in Germany among corporate clients to no. 3 among foreign banks. He coordinated the 10 BNP Paribas group activities in Germany with approx. 3,000 employees in total and NBI of over EUR 1.3 bn. From 2013 to 2015 he joined The Royal Bank of Scotland Group as Country Executive responsible for wholesale banking Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Since January 1st 2016 Joachim is member of the board of ING-DiBa responsible for the ING Wholesale Banking in Germany and Austria and since October 1st 2020 he has been appointed as Deputy CEO.