Speakers

Mr. Van Peteghem has been Treasurer of ADB since February 2015. He is responsible for ensuring that ADB maintains the financial capability to respond to the needs of its developing member countries. He is in charge of planning and managing ADB's financial resources and conducting financial transactions arising from loan operations. He oversees the funding, investments, financial policy and planning, treasury client solutions, quantitative analysis and treasury services divisions of ADB. Mr. Van Peteghem has over 30 years of Treasury-related and investment banking experience with close to 10 years at the African Development Bank (AfDB) where he last served as Treasurer and was also AfDB’s Chairman of the Credit Risk Committee. Prior to joining AfDB, Mr. Van Peteghem was the Treasurer of the Black Sea Trade and Development Bank where aside from managing treasury operations, he was also in charge of the Asset Liability Management function of the Bank. He also served the same function at the Council of Europe Development Bank from 1995 to 2000. Mr. Van Peteghem received his Doctorate degree in Economics and Master’s degree in Management from North Carolina State University; and Master’s degrees in Business Administration and Mechanical Engineering from Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium.