IFC appoints Ary Naïm as Regional Manager for Central and Southeast Europe
The International Finance Corporation has appointed Ary Naïm as its Regional Manager for Central and Southeast Europe.
Naïm will be based in Belgrade, overseeing operations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania and Serbia.
He is taking over the position from Thomas Lubeck, who was recently appointed as Manager for Transaction Advisory Services Public-Private Partnerships in Asia and Pacific, based in Singapore.
Naïm has been with IFC for 17 years. He joined IFC in 2003 in Morocco as Access to Finance Specialist, then moved in 2005 to Washington as part of IFC’s Financial Institutions Group.
In 2010 he took the role of Country Head for the Dominican Republic and Haiti, leading IFC's reconstruction efforts after the 2010 earthquake and rolling out innovative investment, advisory, and treasury initiatives in both countries.
For the past six years, he has been the Country Manager for IFC in Mexico, overseeing a significant ramp-up of IFC annual commitments across sectors and establishing a strong franchise in the country.
