Astrid brings 25 years of experience in development finance and sustainable investments in the public and private sectors with a focus on infrastructure and climate finance, including through public-private partnerships. During her 11 years at the World Bank (2003-2014), she led the upstream preparation of infrastructure sector strategies, reform dialogues and project pipelines and the downstream financing of complex projects in the energy sector in the Africa, ECA and LAC regions, including based in Cameroon and Ukraine. She also served as Director of Energy Partnerships and Director Operations at the African Development Bank, based in Abidjan. In the private sector, Astrid held roles as Managing Director for Sustainable Investments in Europe and Africa at Deutsche Bank Asset Management and as Vice President of Emerging Markets Power at Shell Renewable Energy Services. In addition, she served as Director of Climate Finance at the European Climate Foundation in Brussels. She started her career in the debt capital markets team at JPMorgan in London.

Astrid has extensive background in working with governments, regulators, donors, development partners, project developers, private investors, civil society, philanthropy, and academia to drive sustainable development outcomes. She is a recognized expert in public-private ‘blended’ partnership finance, having structured and managed several blended finance investment vehicles. Astrid holds an MBA from the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management in Germany and an MSc in Political Economy of Transition from the London School of Economics in the UK.