Eva Bernard

Principal, Gender and Economic Inclusion, EBRD

Eva is Principal at the European Bank for Reconstruction on Development covering the Gender and Climate Action agenda. She is leading the work on gender and inclusion with the Climate funds, and work to promote economic inclusion in green cities and sustainable infrastructure, equal access to green jobs in the renewable energy sector, and to climate finance. She is managing and overseeing a portfolio of gender activities mainstreamed in climate projects in Eastern Europe, Asia and Northern Africa, and is building internal capacity on gender and climate change issues within the EBRD.

Eva has 10+ years of experience in policies and international development, with a focus on human capital, gender equality, education and skills, and climate change. Previously, she worked at the World Bank Group, at UNICEF and for the French Treasury’s Washington DC office. Eva has an economic and public policy academic background. She is an alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Sciences Po Paris, l'Ecole Normale Supérieure in France in Economics, and studied Climate Change at the London School of Economics’ Grantham Institute.