Astrid joined the joined the G20 Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF) as Head in September 2023. She brings to this role 25 years of experience in development finance and sustainable investments in the public and private sectors with a focus on infrastructure and climate finance, including through public-private partnerships. She is also a recognized expert in blended public-private finance.
During her previous time at the World Bank (2003–2014), Astrid led the upstream preparation of infrastructure sector strategies, reform dialogues, and project pipelines and the downstream financing of complex projects in the energy sector in the Africa, Europe and Central Asia (ECA), and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) regions, and has previously been based in Cameroon and Ukraine. She also served as Director of Energy Partnerships and Director of Operations at the African Development Bank, based in Abidjan. In the private sector, Astrid held roles as Managing Director for Sustainable Investments in Europe and Africa at Deutsche Bank Asset Management and as Vice President of Emerging Markets Power at Shell Renewable Energy Services. In addition, she served as Director of Climate Finance at the European Climate Foundation in Brussels.
Astrid holds an MBA from the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany and an MSc in Political Economy of Transition from the London School of Economics in the UK.