Senior Investment Officer at Proparco - Groupe Agence Française de Développement / AFD (French Development Agency), in the "Financial Institutions & Inclusion" division of the Debt department. Also participated to the ESSEC Business School mentoring program to support the needs of students for advice and expertise. Proparco, a subsidiary of Agence Française de Développement Group, has been working with the private sector for over 45 years for a more just and sustainable world. With an international network of 23 local offices, Proparco works closely with its partners to build sustainable solutions in response to environmental and social challenges in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. Proparco benefits from sector-based expertise as well as a wide range of financial solutions tailored to the different stages of business development, notably thanks to its Digital Africa subsidiary, and its Propulse technical assistance offering designed to scale up the impacts and performance of its partners.Proparco's new "Acting together for greater impact” Strategy 2023-2027 enables, strengthens and amplifies the different ways in which it works with its partners. To learn more: http://www.proparco.fr/en/strategy.For more information, go to: http://www.proparco.fr/en and @Proparco LinkedIn. Expertise: Origination, selection, portfolio management and risk management of equity investments and private debt positions (investment decision and monitoring of participations in bank loans, structured and corporate financings, asset-based transactions and leveraged buyouts and acquisitions). . over 25-years' experience in corporate and investment banking, with various roles in investment decision-making, portfolio management, ongoing investment monitoring incl. loan trading, credit and financial analysis, risk assessment, buy-side sourcing incl. coverage of originators/sponsors, underwriting and execution of syndicated or club-deal structured, asset-based and corporate financings.. Extensive international experience. Fluent in French (native), German and English.. Education from two top-tier U.S. and French business schools: MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business & Master in Management (MIM or "Grande Ecole Diploma") from ESSEC Business School.