Ambroise Fayolle

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, the European Guarantee Fund, and is Board member of the European Investment Fund. He also oversees the activities of the Bank in France and many countries in Africa and of the Pacific Ocean.  

Prior to joining the EIB, Ambroise Fayolle represented France at the Executive Boards of the International Monetary Fund and of the World Bank, in Washington DC, from 2007 until his appointment as head of Agence France Tresor, the Debt Agency of the French Ministry of Finance, in 2013. He was also a staff member of the IMF between 2003 and 2005. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA), most of his career was spent at the French Treasury Department where he was notably appointed in 2015 assistant secretary for Multilateral and Development affairs, Sous-Sherpa for the G8, and Co-Chairman of the Paris Club.