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