Ms. Bérengère Prince, Lead Natural Resources Management Specialist, joined the World Bank in 2010. Over the past decade, she has led several blue economy engagements in Africa, Europe, and Latin America. Since joining the World Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Region in the Environment, Natural Resources, and Blue Economy Global Practice in March 2020, she has led the preparation of marine pollution reduction investments in Albania and in the Black Sea. She has served as a technical lead for teams working in the blue space in Bulgaria, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Romania and Russia, and has led the preparation of the reports Realizing the Blue Economy Potential of Albania (2020) and Climate Change and Marine Fisheries in Africa (2019).
Before joining the World Bank, she worked in East Asia, at the Mekong River Commission (Lao PDR), and at Fauna and Flora International (Vietnam). Ms. Prince joined the fisheries department of the French Ministry of Agriculture during the French rotating chairmanship of the EU Council in 2000. She started her career in Senegal at the Fisheries Economics Center. She is a French national with an M.Sc. in Agronomy, Natural Resources Management, and Fisheries Economics, as well as an LL.M. in International Business Law.