He is responsible for the Bank’s operations and policy engagement initiatives in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. The EBRD invests in these countries about € 1.8 billion a year.

Matteo has over 25 years’ experience in industry and finance. He joined the EBRD in 2008, in the Corporate Equity team where he was supervising equity transactions with a focus on Western Balkans, Poland, Turkey and the Russian Federation. In 2012 he was appointed Country Director for Serbia and in 2015 Regional Director for Romania and Bulgaria.

He has also held various Supervisory Board and Board of Directors memberships in investee companies and private equity funds and also served as a Director on the Foreign Investment Council in Romania.

Prior to working at the EBRD, Matteo was Managing Director at Finint & Partners, the private equity arm of Finanziaria Internazionale, an Italian merchant bank, where he spent 10 years investing in a broad range of sectors.

Before that he was Senior Manager at Accenture Strategic Services in Milan, Italy and held various positions in the Finmeccanica and ENI groups in the UK and Italy.

Education: He holds an MBA from INSEAD and an MS degree cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from Genoa University.