Speakers

Eila Kreivi is a former Director, Head of Capital Markets and Chief Sustainable Finance Advisor of the European Investment Bank (EIB), she left the Bank in retirement in 2024 after 29 years. Subsequently, in March 2024 she joined the Board of Directors of Finnvera, a state-owned special financing company in Finland and in July 2024, she joined the Board of Directors of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation, which raises funds for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Ms Kreivi joined EIB in 1995 as a capital markets officer. She went on to become the Head of Funding for the Americas, Asia & Pacific and headed the Capital Markets Department as its Director from April 2011 to January 2022. Between March 2018 and January 2022, and she was an alternate Board member of the European Investment Fund (EIF). She served as Chief Sustainable Finance Advisor reporting to the Secretary General from February 2022 to February 2024. Prior to joining EIB, she worked at the Union Bank of Finland and Société Générale in Helsinki and Paris. Ms Kreivi chaired the Executive Committee of the Green Bond Principles (2015-2018), represented the EIB at the High Level Expert Group on sustainable finance (2017-2018), Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (2018-2020) and the Platform on Sustainable Finance (2020-2025). She was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) from July 2020 to August 2024. Additionally, she has been involved as an external expert to the High-Level Working Group on the Environmental Consequences of the War in Ukraine. She is currently an expert of the Geostrategic Europe Task Force, hosted by Jacques Delors Energy Centre. She holds a Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Abo Akademi in Finland and is fluent in Finnish, English, French, and Swedish.