Title
Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer
Company
World Bank Group
Bio
As Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer, Bertrand Badré is
responsible for the collective financial and risk management strategies of the World Bank
Group and for each of the institutions that make up the group. He represents the Group at
the G20 and on the Financial Stability Board. Mr Badré also oversees the Information and
Technology Solutions Vice Presidency. Prior to joining the World Bank in March 2013, Mr
Badré served as Group Chief Financial Officer at Société Générale, Group Chief Financial
Officer of Crédit Agricole, and Managing Director of Lazard in Paris, responsible for the
Financial Services Group. In 2003, he was invited to join President Chirac’s diplomatic team
and was closely involved in the preparation of the G8 summit in Evian. In 2002, he was a
member of the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure, a panel of financial experts
to assess ways of attracting resources to the water field, chaired by Michel Camdessus. Mr
Badré has served in the French Ministry of Finance (1995 to 1999), and has been a Director
on a number of boards, including the Supervisory Board of Eurazeo, Haulotte Group,
various boards of the leading French regional daily Newspaper Group Ouest France, and
subsidiaries of Crédit Agricole and Sociéte Générale. Mr Badré is a graduate of Ecole
Nationale d'Administration and Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. He also studied history
at Paris Sorbonne University, and graduated from the Paris business school at Hautes
Études Commerciales.