Bertrand Badré

Bertrand Badré is CEO and Founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital.  Previously, he was Managing Director of the World Bank and World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer.  Prior to this, Bertrand served as a member of President Jacques Chirac's diplomatic team as his deputy personal representative for Africa. He spent seven years at Lazard in New York, London and latterly in Paris as Managing Director where he co-led the restructuring of Eurotunnel. He is a graduate of ENA, SciencesPo and HEC. He is a regular speaker and teacher at these and other institutions including Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Princeton and Oxford. He recently wrote a book “Can Finance Save the World?” forwarded by Emmanuel Macron and Gordon Brown and translated in multiple languages (recently in Chinese).