Matthieu Riolacci

Capital and Financial Markets Development, EBRD

^{Matthieu Riolacci sits within the EBRD’s Capital and Financial Markets Development team. He has been looking at innovative solutions to bridge the trade finance gap in the EBRD region for the past three years. Matthieu leads on EBRD’s policy work to encourage the development of Deep-Tier Supply Chain Finance by engaging with authorities and the private sector. His projects range from upstream financial regulation assessment to downstream distribution of trade finance assets. Prior to this, Matthieu worked for Lazard’s sovereign advisory team in Paris. He holds an MPA from Columbia University and another from the Institut D’Etudes Politiques of Paris. Matthieu also conducts postgraduate research in Economics at the University of London, Royal Holloway, focusing on working capital funding patterns, with an ESG angle.}