Jean-Christophe LALOUX

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Jean-Christophe Laloux is Director General – Head of EU Lending and Advisory Operations at the European Investment Bank (EIB), the long-term financing institution of the European Union.

During his ten-year tenure heading up the EIB’s frontline, his teams delivered more than half a trillion euros in new lending operations. Mr Laloux has been instrumental in transforming the business delivery model of the Bank. Under his leadership and in close partnership with the European Commission, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has developed new high impact financing instruments: To mention a few: venture debt for high-tech startups (currently around EUR 6 billion invested in 300 companies), risk-sharing instruments in partnership with European banks, new approaches to construction, merchant and technology risk in project finance structures, anchor subscription on primary markets to green bond issues by European corporates, counter-guarantees for the European wind industry (currently EUR 5 billion deployed). Today, 75% of the Bank’s clients are private sector counterparts. Mr Laloux's credo is the pursuit of more meaningful risk taking in EIB, adding value to clients, the European economy and citizens.

He has held various frontline positions since he joined the EIB in 1999 and was also the EIB’s Head of Human Resources (2011-2013).

Before joining the Bank, he was a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

He holds a degree in Commercial Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven, a post-graduate degree in Management (magna cum laude) from the University of Ghent, and a Master of Business Administration (distinction) from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, United States.

He speaks English, French, German and Dutch.