Mr Fredrik Korfker

KANDO id: 39159

Bio

Appointed Chief Evaluator of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in June 2005 with overall responsibility for the evaluation function in the Bank. The Evaluation Department concentrates on carrying out ex post evaluations, assesses the results of projects and programmes and determines whether there were significant lessons to be learned from past experience. Contributing to the quality management aspects of new Bank operations through the application of lessons learned is a key activity of the evaluation function. Became Head of the Evaluation Department in 1997, reporting to both Management and the Board of Directors, through the Board’s Audit Committee. In June 2005, the Board of Directors appointed him to the function of Chief Evaluator and now reports directly to the Board. Prior to joining the EBRD in May 1993, worked in different development, development finance and commercial banking environments. Started his career on the side of international development working for the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations with assignments in Ecuador, Rome (Italy) and Ghana. Development financing experience was gained in FMO Finance for Development in the Netherlands heading project finance department for Latin America and the Caribbean; and in the National Investment Bank in The Hague and was also responsible for the Netherlands Participation Company of the Netherlands Antilles. In the early nineties worked for three years in the Inter-American Development Bank concentrating on co-financing projects in Latin-America and the Caribbean. Commercial banking skills were developed in the Netherlands starting in the 1960s in ABN-Amro Bank (then ABN bank) and in the 1980s in a subsidiary of Chase Manhattan Bank (credit function) and a mortgage bank (sector management) in Amsterdam.

Career


European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

International financial institution

Education