This years Mais Lecture will be delivered by Odile Renaud-Basso, President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on "How to green the global economy".
In her 2023 Mais Lecture Ms Renaud-Basso will share her thoughts on the greatest challenge facing our planet: climate change and the need to green our global economy. She will make practical suggestions as to how to make this shift to governments, multilateral development banks, the financial services industry, the private sector and consumers, among others.
Odile Renaud-Basso is the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
The EBRD’s Board of Governors elected Ms Renaud-Basso as the Bank’s seventh President in October 2020 during its 29th Annual Meeting.
As Director General at the French Treasury, Ms 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 role, she was Deputy Director-General of the Caisse des Dépôts, a large French public financial institution.
Mais Lecture
The annual Mais lecture is regarded as the City of London’s foremost event for the banking and finance community, and is attended by senior practitioners and academics. Since its inception in 1978, the Mais has maintained a tradition of prestigious speakers including Mark Carney, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Mervyn King and George Osborne. The last lecture took place in February 2022 with The Rt. Hon. Rishi Sunak MP.
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