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Advisory Board - Elvira Lefting

Elvira Lefting

Managing Director, Finance in Motion GmbH

Elvira Lefting is Managing Director at Finance in Motion, one of the world’s leading impact asset managers with well over €2.3 billion in assets under management and offices in 17 countries. At Finance in Motion, Elvira manages debt investments, technical assistance operations and the company’s regional offices. She has devoted her career exclusively to development finance, combining financial sector development with the objectives of small business growth, housing improvement and the green and sustainable economy. Elvira started her professional career in 1998 in Russia at German development consultancy IPC before moving to the EBRD, the China Development Bank and then KfW Development Bank.

Elvira holds an M.A. in Slavic Studies from Heidelberg University.