Vice-President Östros’s areas of oversight include financing of energy, health and life sciences, development (policy and horizontal issues, jointly with Vice-President Fayolle), financing operations in Austria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Russia*, the ACP countries (Africa and the Pacific, except the Caribbean States and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), jointly with Vice-President Fayolle), relations with the EIB Group Audit Committee, corporate responsibility, diversity and inclusion, Legal – lending operations and the Baltic Sea strategy. Vice-President Östros also oversees the relations with the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) and the European Ombudsman, the relations with the Gulf countries relations with central bank debt management offices, relations with the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB).
Global gender finance initiative sets ambitious new $15 billion fundraising goal after securing more than double its original $3 billion target
The 2X Challenge, founded by the Development Finance Institutions of the G7 nations, today announced that it would raise $15 billion for gender-lens investment after surpassing its original target by 100 per cent.