Manfred is leading the ILX initiative and brings 30+ years’ experience in both development finance and international capital markets. From 2006-2016 he was President and Chief Financial Officer at the EBRD and lead the Bank’s Institutional Investment Partnership in creating the Equity Participation Fund. He is also member of the Investment Committee of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and serves on the Board of Van Lanschot Kempen as Vice Chair, Nederlandse Waterschapsbank and FRV, the leading renewables company. From 2004 to 2006, he was Senior Managing Director and Head of the Association of Financial Markets in Europe and prior to that held various senior positions during a 18-year career at SBC Warburg and UBS where he was Global Head of Debt Capital Markets from 1990-2004.