Shona Tatchell

Director, Trade Facilitation Programme, EBRD

Shona is the Head of the Trade Facilitation Programme at the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

Shona is an experienced Trade Financier, having spent over 30 years in the industry,
holding senior Trade roles with The Chase Manhattan Bank, HSBC, Barclays.

She was Founder and CEO of Halotrade , a Fintech spin-out from Barclays, building
systems to incentivise a sustainable future for global trade, by directly connecting
responsive preferential financing solutions with supply chain sustainability performance
data.

She has lived and worked in the UK, the Middle East and Singapore and holds a Bachelor of
Arts (Joint Honours) and a Master of Arts in Modern Languages (French and German)
from the University of Oxford.