Administrative Council

The powers of the Administrative Council are described in Article X of the Articles of Agreement. The Administrative Council consists of a Chairperson and one representative for each member state.

The Administrative Council exercises the powers delegated to it by the Governing Board, establishes and supervises operational policies, approves investment projects submitted by the governments. It votes on the Bank's operating budget. Its Chairperson is elected by the Governing Board.

Composition

Last update: 1/12/2023

CHAIRPERSON
Wioletta BARWICKA-LOFTHOUSE (Poland)
Former Executive Board Director (for Poland, Bulgaria and Albania) at EBRD, London

VICE-CHAIRPERSON
Arsène JACOBY (Luxembourg)
Director, Multilateral Affairs, Development and Compliance, Ministry of Finance, Luxembourg

Albania
Adela XHEMALI
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Finance and Economy, Tirana

Andorra
Nöelia SOUQUE CALDATO
State Secretary for International Financial Matters, Ministry of Finance, Andorra La Vella

Belgium
Ronald DE SWERT
Counselor General, Head of  International and European Financial Affairs, Treasury, Federal Public Service Finance, Brussels

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Milorad ĐURĐEVIĆ
Head of the Cabinet of the Minister, Ministry of Finance and Treasury, Sarajevo

Bulgaria
Gergana BEREMSKA
Director, Directorate of International Financial Institutions and Cooperation, Ministry of Finance, Sofia

Croatia
Stipe ŽUPAN
State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Zagreb

Cyprus
Avgi CHRYSOSTOMOU-LAPATHIOTIS
Director, Financial Services Directorate, Ministry of Finance, Nicosia

Czech Republic
Petr PAVELEK
Department Director, Debt and Financial Assets Management Department, Ministry of Finance, Prague

Denmark
Steen Ryd LARSEN
Advisor, Ministry of Finance, Copenhagen

Estonia
Riina LAIGO
Counsellor, EU and International Affairs Department, Ministry of Finance, Tallinn

Finland
Arto ENO
Financial Counsellor, International Financial Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Helsinki

France
Matthieu PHILIPPOT
Head of Unit, Bilateral European relations and EU financial instruments, Treasury Department, Ministry of the Economy, Finance and the Recovery, Paris

Georgia
Ekaterine GUNTSADZE
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Finance, Tbilisi

Germany
Markus HÖRMANN
Head of Division (VII D 2), Ministry of Finance, Berlin

Greece
Angelos VOURVACHIS
Head of Independent Section for Department financial institutions & Development Banks, Ministry of Economy & Finance, Athens

Holy See
Marco GANCI
Special Envoy and Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg

Hungary
Máté LÓGA
Secretary of State for Economic Development and National Financial Services, Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister, Budapest

Iceland
Ólafur SIGURDSSON
Director, Directorate for External Trade and Economic Affairs, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Reykjavik

Ireland
Mary KEENEY
International Financial Division, Department of Finance, Dublin

Italy
Francesca UTILI
Director, International Financial Relations Directorate, Department of the Treasury, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Rome

Kosovo
Dije RIZVANOLLI
Acting Head of Division, International Financial Cooperation, Ministry of Finance, Pristina

Latvia
Inta VASARAUDZE
Director, Department of Economic Analysis, Ministry of Finance, Riga 

Liechtenstein
Domenik WANGER
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of Liechtenstein to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg

Lithuania
Darius TRAKELIS
Director, EU and International Affairs Department, Ministry of Finance, Vilnius

Luxembourg
Arsène JACOBY
Director, Multilateral Affairs, Development and Compliance, Ministry of Finance, Luxembourg

Malta
Joseph FILLETTI
Former Permanent Representative of Malta to the Council of Europe, St. Julian’s

Republic of Moldova
Pending nomination

Montenegro
Katarina ŽIVKOVIĆ
Head of the Unit for Debt Management, Indebtedness Analysis and Foreign Relations (front office), Directorate for State Treasury, Ministry of Finance and Social Welfare, Podgorica

Netherlands
Johannes SMEETS
Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Hague

North Macedonia
Dejan NIKOLOVSKI
Head of International Financial Relations and Public Debt Management Department, Ministry of Finance, Skopje

Norway
Andreas DANEVAD
Senior Advisor, Section for Multilateral Development Banks, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo

Poland
Tomasz SKURZEWSKI
Deputy Director, International Cooperation Department, Ministry of Finance, Warsaw

Portugal
José AZEVEDO PEREIRA
Director General, Office for Economic Policy and International Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Lisbon 

Romania
Boni CUCU
General Director, International Financial Relations General Directorate, Ministry of Public Finance, Bucharest

San Marino
Nicola CECCAROLI
Counsellor, Ministry of Finance, San Marino

Serbia
Ana TRIPOVIĆ
State Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Belgrade 

Slovak Republic
Martin SPIRITZA
Director, Financial Instruments and International Institutions Unit, International Relations Section, Ministry of Finance, Bratislava

Slovenia
Barbara KNAPIČ NAVARRETE
Financial System Directorate, Ministry of Finance, Ljubljana

Spain
Andrés BARRAGÁN
Deputy Director General for Multilateral Financial Institutions, General Secretariat of the Treasury and International Finance, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Madrid

Sweden
Elin BERGMAN
Head of Section, Division for International Financial Institutions, International and Economic Affairs Department, Ministry of Finance, Stockholm

Switzerland
Ivan PAVLETIC
Head, Multilateral Cooperation, State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, Economic Cooperation and Development, Bern

Türkiye
Kerem DÖNMEZ
Acting Director General for Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Treasury and Finance, Ankara

Ukraine
Olha ZYKOVA
Deputy Minister of Finance, Ministry of Finance, Kyiv

Meetings in 2024

26 January
25-26 March
7-8 June
27 September
14-15 November