EBRD appoints Heike Harmgart MD for southern and eastern Mediterranean

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has appointed Heike Harmgart as Managing Director for its southern and eastern Mediterranean region.

Dr Harmgart will take up her position on 1 January 2020. She replaces Janet Heckman who is retiring from the EBRD. Dr Harmgart joined the EBRD in 2006 as an economist. She was appointed EBRD head in Jordan in 2013 and subsequently assumed responsibly for the wider eastern Mediterranean region, which includes Lebanon and the West Bank and Gaza as well as Jordan.