Marie-Hélène LOISON has been Deputy Director General of AFD since 2021, after having been Deputy Director of Operations of AFD from 2018 to 2021. She is a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies and the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. She began her career in 1996 in export finance at Société Générale Paris. In 2000, she joined Proparco, AFD’s subsidiary in charge of private sector financing, to work on structuring financing in the agribusiness, tourism and health sectors. She then joined the private equity division, as an investment manager and then as head of the division in 2008. In 2011, she was appointed Deputy CEO of Proparco. In 2015, she joined AFD as Director Middle East and North Africa and was appointed Deputy Director of Operations in 2018.