Speakers

Alex Pivovarsky is director, capital and financial markets development (CFMD), at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where he leads a team of financial market practitioners responsible for supporting Bank’s financial market development efforts in its countries of operations and expanding Bank’s capital market product offering. Alex joined the EBRD in 2008 as an economist at the Office of the Chief Economist. His career at the EBRD has included roles of Deputy Director in the President’s Office, Senior Adviser in its Corporate Strategy team and head of the Bank’s resident office in Minsk, Belarus. Before joining the Bank, Alex worked at the IMF negotiating stabilisation programmes in countries around the world and led policy advisory programmes at Harvard University. Alex holds Master’s and Doctoral Degrees in Public Policy from Harvard University and a Master’s degree in History from the University of Kyiv.