Conférence de Dov ZERAH, Directeur général de l’AFD

Dov ZERAH, Directeur général de l’Agence française de développement, s’exprimera en anglais sur “The AFD Approach to Climate change in International Development”

Modération de Ghassan SALAME, Directeur de l’Ecole des Affaires internationales de Sciences Po (PSIA) 

 

 

Dov ZERAH is the Executive Director of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), a public institution providing development financing to sustainable development projects carried by government local authorities, public companies, and the private and associative sectors. Mr. Zerah began his career at the French Treasurywhere he spent thirteen years. He then became the permanent secretary of Michel Roussin, the Minister of Cooperation, in 1993.

From July 1993 to November 1995, he was Deputy General Director of the Caisse Française de Développement (CFD), which would later become AFD. Dov Zerah became Corinne Lepage’s permanent secretary within the Ministry of the Environment, where he stayed from 1995 to 1997. He then headed the cabinet of Edith Cresson, the European Commissioner, from 1997 to 1999. From 1999 to 2002, he was the CEO of DAGRIS (Développement des agro-industries du Sud), the former French Company for the Development of Textile Fibers, as well as of the Compagnie Cotonnière (COPACO). Mr. Zerah then became the Mint-Master of the Département des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France, between 2002 and 2007, before holding the post of senior counselor at the French Court of Financial Auditors until his nomination as the General Director of AFD.