Thouraya Triki is the Director of the International Partners department at EIB Global Directorate. Under this role, she oversees EIB public sector operations in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Latin American and Caribbean as well as private sector financial inclusion investments. Prior to joining EIB, Thouraya was director of the Sustainable Production, Markets and Institutions Division (PMI), the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD’s) technical division. In this role she was co-leading the design and implementation of IFAD’s sovereign Investment projects aimed at reducing rural poverty and promoting food security and climate adaptation. She was also in charge of IFAD's private sector non-sovereign private sector operations. Before joining IFAD, Thouraya worked at the African Development Bank (AfDB) as Manager in the Microeconomics, Institutions and Development Impact Division, at its headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. In that role, she oversaw the screening of all AfDB private sector operations in terms of additionality and development impact. From 2013 to 2017, she was Chief Country Economist at AfDB North Africa Regional Department based in Tunis, Tunisia where she worked on both private and public sector operations, with a particular focus on entrepreneurship, Public Private Partnerships and financial inclusion/ financial sector development initiatives. From 2008 to 2013 Thouraya held a senior and then principal economist position at AfDB where she helped set up the Additionality and Development Outcome Assessment (ADOA) team. In this role, she also actively contributed to developing several AfDB flagship programs such as the SME program and the trade finance program, and authored several papers and books on financial inclusion and financial sector development in Africa. Before joining the AfDB, Thouraya spent about 10 years in various positions in academia – teaching finance in Canada, France and Tunisia, and managing and consulting with private sector businesses. Triki holds a PhD in finance (risk management) from HEC Montréal.