Véronique Salze-Lozac’h

Véronique Salze-Lozac'h is Chief Evaluator at the EBRD. She assumed the role on 1 June 2021.  

Ms Salze-Lozac’h is responsible for delivering high-quality, independent evaluations that enhance the EBRD’s accountability and provide evidence-based lessons for better results. She aims to foster a culture of evaluation in the Bank and ensure that evaluation is useful to Board members and operations in their efforts to build a resilient and sustainable future.

Ms Salze-Lozac'h is an economist, with a strong evaluation background and more than 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors, working on inclusive growth, private-sector development and policy reforms in Europe, Africa and Asia. 

Prior to joining the EBRD, she was Deputy Director General of the Independent Evaluation Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). In this role, she supported the department's Director General in providing independent evaluations of the ADB’s operations for accountability and learning purposes. She was responsible, in particular, for managing the ADB's evaluation knowledge, ensuring that it was accessible, valued and utilised.

Previously, Ms Salze-Lozac'h was Chief Economist at the Asia Foundation, where she supported public and private initiatives to enhance economic governance for a more inclusive and sustainable development across 18 countries. She implemented projects, conducted public-private policy dialogue and led research and evaluation work on key development challenges across Asia, working with governments, bilateral and multilateral organisations, and the private sector.

Before joining the foundation, Ms Salze-Lozac’h worked on a variety of economic projects for both the public and private sectors in Africa, Europe and Asia. As founder and managing director of VSL Consulting, she led private investment projects in Africa and managed multi-country public-private partnerships for industrial research and development programmes. Her other areas of expertise include microfinance, value-chain analysis and trade.

She also taught project management and other topics related to economic development at Centre d'études financières, économiques et bancaires (CEFEB), the training centre of the Agence Française de Développement.

Ms Salze-Lozac'h holds an MA in English and Political Sciences from Paris IV Sorbonne, as well as an MA in International Affairs and Economic Development from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po Paris), France. She also has an MA in Public and International Affairs and a PhD (all but dissertation) in Economic Development from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.