Ary Naim Appointed New Regional Manager of IFC for Central and Southeast Europe

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, has appointed Ary Naim as its Regional Manager for Central and Southeast Europe, based in Belgrade, and overseeing operations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania and Serbia, the IFC announced.

Naim is taking over the position from Thomas Lubeck, who was recently appointed as Manager for Transaction Advisory Services Public-Private Partnerships in Asia and Pacific, based in Singapore.

On this occasion, Naim said:

– As they slowly start exiting the current COVID-19 crisis with severely constrained public finances, countries have to restart their economies and recreate lost jobs. Never has it been so important and urgent to attract fresh private investment.

According to him, the good news is that Central and Southeast Europe countries are well placed to leverage the digital economy, the upcoming regionalization of key global value chains, and the need for a more sustainable and inclusive growth going forward.

– To achieve this, the region must improve its business environment, establish new public private partnerships, embrace technological disruption, and create new markets. IFC is committed and uniquely positioned to help governments and businesses along this path – Naim said.

As of January 2020, IFC's committed investment portfolio in Central and Southeast Europe stood at USD 2.6 billion across a broad range of sectors, including financial markets, infrastructure, information and communication technology, manufacturing, services, and education.

Ary Naim is a French national and a former banker, an engineer in Computer Sciences, with a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence.

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