Nadege Hopman | Deputy Head of Regional Representation, Pretoria
European Investment Bank

Nadège is the senior loan officer for South Africa and Zambia, after being the deputy head of mission of the regional representation for Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean at the European Investment Bank for the past five years. She worked in development finance at the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) in Paris where she was on secondment. During her first years at the EIB, she provided technical expertise in Carbon Capture and Storage, Oil & Gas, and geothermal energy. Before devoting her work to investment and development finance, she worked with Schlumberger for 12 years mostly in Africa and the North Sea. She held various positions from field engineer to service manager and went on to lead technical teams on some first-of-a-kind CO2 storage projects in Europe. She has co-authored several papers both on technical and on psychology-related topics. Nadège holds a Masters in Civil Engineering, a Masters in Geophysics, an MBA from INSEAD, a BSc in Psychology and is PMP certified.