Curriculum Vitae

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Luca Lazzaroli holds an Economics and Finance degree from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" where he also pursued his post-graduate studies after studying at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. He is a Chartered Accountant (Revisore Contabile and Dottore Commercialista).

He spent the first four years of his professional career working for The Chase Manhattan Bank in Milan and London, firstly as a credit officer, then joining the corporate finance team.

He joined the European Investment Bank in 1992 in the Credit Risk Department, focusing on public-private partnership and project finance operations. He subsequently moved to the Italian Operational Department (energy, telecom and infrastructure) in Rome, and in the second half of 2000 worked for the newly established Italian PPP Task Force as Head of the Financial Unit. In 2001-2006 he was back at the EIB in Luxembourg, where he continued to pursue his career, initially with the operational Benelux Division, as Deputy Head of Division in charge of new operations in Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Then in 2006 he was appointed Head of Division in charge of lending to infrastructure projects and public-private partnerships in Spain. In May 2011 he became Head of the South-East Europe lending department (covering Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus).

In April 2014 he was appointed Deputy Secretary General in the General Secretariat of the EIB. Then he moved back to the Operations and from 1 June 2015 to 30 April 2022 he was Director General and Deputy Head of Operations in the Operations Directorate.

Since 1 May 2022 he has been the Director General of the Portfolio Management and Monitoring Directorate (formerly known as Transaction Management and Restructuring Directorate).