LONDON (Reuters) – French Treasury head Odile Renaud-Basso has been elected to become president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the bank said in a statement on Thursday.
Renaud-Basso, the first woman to be elected to the position, is the fourth French national to lead the multilateral development bank which is majority owned by the G7 economic powers.
(Reporting by Karin Strohecker; Editing by Tom Arnold)