European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI): appointment of 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 Managing Director of the European Fund for Strategic Investments.

The committees recommended that the European Parliament give consent to the appointment of Wilhelm Molterer as 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 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 Wilhelm Molterer, the proposed candidate for the function of Managing Director of the EFSI, at which he made an opening statement and then responded to questions from the members of the committees.

Wilhelm Molterer has been Managing Director of the EFSI since 1 November 2015. 

He was a Member of the Austrian Federal Parliament from 1990 to 1994, and then served as Federal Minister for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management in Austria, Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Finance and Vice-President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and member of its Management Committee.