EBRD appoints Hamza Al Assad as associate director for Climate Strategy

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has tapped Hamza Al Assad (LinkedIn) as its new associate director for Climate Strategy and Regional Delivery in the Bank’s southern and eastern Mediterranean (SEMED) region, it said in an emailed statement yesterday. A dual Egyptian and Jordanian national, Al Assad will lead the delivery of the bank’s green transition investments with public and private sector partners in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon and the West Bank and Gaza. Al Assad previously led the EBRD’s municipal and environmental infrastructure team in Jordan, and worked at the bank in Egypt between 2013 and 2017.