European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI): appointment of Deputy Executive Director

The Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs adopted the report by Jean ARTHUIS (ALDE, FR) and Roberto GUALTIERI (S&D, IT) on the proposal for the appointment of the Deputy Managing Director of the European Fund for Strategic Investments.

The committees recommended that the European Parliament give consent to the appointment of Iliyana Tsanova as Deputy Managing Director of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI).

As a reminder, on 19 July 2018, the Steering Board of the EFSI adopted a proposal for the reappointment of the Deputy Managing Director of the EFSI and transmitted this proposal to the European Parliament.

On 25 September 2018, the Committee on Budgets and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs held a hearing with Iliyana Tsanova, the proposed candidate for the function of Deputy Managing Director of the EFSI, at which she made an opening statement and then responded to questions from the members of the committees.

Iliyana Tsanova is currently the Deputy Managing Director of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI). Previously, she held positions at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. In 2013 and 2014, she was Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the management of EU funds in two separate caretaker governments of Bulgaria.