Head of the Regional Hub for Eastern Europe, based in Kyiv, Ukraine
Kristina Mikulova
About
Kristina serves as Head of the Regional Hub for Eastern Europe, based in Kyiv, Ukraine, at the European Investment Bank. Prior to her appointment, she was EIB’s Representative to Lebanon based in Beirut and before that, senior Policy Advisor in the bank’s Operations Department, focusing on additionality and impact, as well as application of environmental and social standards in EIB projects in the EU and around the world. Passionate about international development, Kristina embarked on this path at the World Bank after obtaining her PhD in social sciences at Oxford University, contributing governance expertise to a variety of projects across Europe and Central Asia. She later re-joined the World Bank as Advisor at the World Bank Board of Directors, overseeing work in Eastern Europe as well as the Mashreq region at the time of the Syrian refugee crisis, which grew her interest in ensuring sound approaches to projects implemented in fragile and conflict-affected settings. Kristina has worked on the donor / shareholder side as well, as Head of Development Cooperation at Slovakia’s Ministry of Finance where she helped channel the country’s experience with economic reforms and EU integration to partners in the Western Balkans and Eastern Europe. Kristina’s native language is Slovak. She speaks Ukrainian and French; she understands Polish and Russian, and she is learning Levantine Arabic.
