Bertrand Badré

Starting his career in Paris as an Inspector, then Deputy Head, of the auditing service of the French Ministry of Finance, Badrè has been Managing Director of the World Bank and World Bank Group CFO. Writer of “Can Finance Save the World?” prefaced by Emmanuel Macron and Gordon Brown and translated in multiple languages, he also wrote the book “Voulons-nous (sérieusement) changer le monde?”, prefaced by Erik Orsenna.  Currently serving on the Canadian Fintech Wealth Simple board and with a role as non-Executive Director at Getlink (Groupe Eurotunnel), Badrè has been group CFO at Société Générale and Crédit Agricole and served as a member of President Jacques Chirac’s diplomatic team as his deputy personal representative for Africa. He has published numerous articles including “From Billions to Trillons: MDBs contributions to financing for development”, the first joint report from the IMF, EIB, Regional Multilateral Development Banks and the World Bank Group.  Bertrand is a graduate of ENA, SciencesPo and HEC.