JEAN-Philippe de Jong has been appointed as the CEO for the Association of Development Financing Institutions in the Pacific (ADFIP).
Mr Philippe de Jong, a Dutch national, is a leading development finance executive with 35 years hybrid commercial and development banking experience.
He has a strong international background, reflected by his command of five languages and his involvement with project and development finance activities in more than 30 countries in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Caribbean, West Africa and the Pacific, for which region he has been working the past 20 years.
Before joining ADFIP, he was at the European Investment Bank (EIB) head of the Sydney-based Pacific Regional Office which he helped establish in May 2007.
Prior to his leading role at the Pacific Regional Office, he was working at the EIB’s head office in Luxembourg, and before, with the French Credit Lyonnais Group.
“I am very excited to have been chosen to lead ADFIP, at a very special point in time,”said Mr Philipppe de Jong.
“As the largest contributor of finance to the Private Sector in the Pacific and its crucial role in the development of Pacific Islands economies, ADFIP needs to gain visibility as a regional organisation and to become a credible counterpart to other regional organisations and donor agencies.”
Anna Mendiola, chairman of the ADFIP board and president of the Federated States of Micronesia Development Bank, said; “As a proven leader and with a strong track record, Mr Philippe de Jong is in our view well suited to transform ADFIP into a dynamic, visible and strong regional organisation.”
ADFIP is the umbrella organisation of 25 development and commercial banks, home finance corporations and credit unions spread over Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
ADFIP’s regional office is based in Suva, Fiji.
