Alessandro Bragonzi is the representative of European Investment Bank, the EU Bank, in Albania since January 2019. He is responsible for the EIB institutional matters for Albania, Kosovo*, and North Macedonia and he is in charge of originating, structuring and executing public and private sector’s financing transactions in Albania, and with banks in the Western Balkans. He has been working at EIB since 2010 where he was responsible for lending operations with international financial institutions across CEE (Austria, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Turkey), and, previously, in the management and establishment of EU-funded financial instruments in different EU Member States cooperating with national authorities, the European Commission, and local financial intermediaries.