Manfred Schepers is the founder and CEO of ILX Management, the Amsterdam-based development finance asset manager and has 30+ years’ senior-level experience in both development finance and international capital markets. From 2006-2016 he was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and led the Bank’s Institutional Investment Partnership program. From 2017-21 he was a member of the Investment Committee of the EU’s European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and currently serves on the Supervisory Boards of Van Lanschot Kempen and the Nederlandse Waterschapsbank. From 1986-2004 he had an extensive career at SBC Warburg and UBS where he was Global Head of Debt Capital Markets from 1990-2004.Manfred holds an MSc (Econ) and a BSc (Econ) in Development Economics from the London School of Economics and International Baccalaureate from UWC Atlantic College.