Summit Dialogue, Ep. 14: Bertrand Badre on the Japanese G20 Summit – A European Perspective

I could not forego an opportunity to sit down in the virtual studio at Global Summitry to discuss the G20 Osaka Summit with my colleague Bertrand Badre. Bertrand maintains strong transatlantic ties and so I was eager both to discuss the Summit from a European perspective and to get a closer look at European politics at the EU and at national levels. In his career, Bertrand has held both private and public roles especially in the national and global financial system. From 2004 and 2007, Bertrand was a managing director of Lazard in Paris and responsible for the Financial Services Group and from 2007 to 2011 he served as group chief financial officer of Crédit Agricole. On the public service side, he served in the French Ministry of Finance from 1995 to 1999 where he led a number of control audit, and consultancy missions for the French National Audit Office. In 2003, Bertrand was invited to join President Jacques Chirac's diplomatic team and was closely involved in the preparation of the G8 summit in Evian. Importantly, Bertrand was the Managing Director of the World Bank Group and the Chief Financial Officer for it. Bertrand Badré today is the CEO and Founder of ‘Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital’ an investment fund with the objectives to finance the Sustainable Development Goals with market level financial returns. Bertrand has written a number of books most recently, “Can Finance Save the World?” Earlier, Bertrand wrote “From Billions to Trillions: MDBs contributions to financing for development” and in 2004, he wrote “Water” with Michel Camdessus, on finance and access to water.