Shona Tatchell: EBRD's new head of trade facilitation on digitalisation and sustainability

Katharine Morton

Head of Export, Project and Development Finance

Region:

Europe

In her first interview since her appointment on 7 May, Shona Tatchell, the new head of trade and supply chain finance, European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD) Trade Facilitation Programme (TFP), discusses her unusual journey to the role, and how she is well placed to help champion digitalisation and sustainability in trade.

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