Xavier has over 15 years of banking experience. He joined the EIB in 2009 running the Eastern European funding portfolio (RUB, TRY, PLN, HUF, RON) before taking over the responsibility of the GBP funding programme for the institution in 2011. He managed among other things the first public tender of the EIB in GBP as well as the issuance of the first SONIA FRN. For the last 2 years Xavier has been working on the new Risk Free Rates and issued benchmarks based on SOFR, ESTR and SONIA, lately he was involved with the structuring of the blockchain transaction. Prior to joining the EIB Xavier held various responsibilities at CM-CIC and BNP Paribas mainly in the debt or debt capital markets side of business. Xavier graduated from the University of Nancy with a master in European law and a master in Finance; he also holds a master degree in strategy from the University of Växjö (Sweden).