Speakers

Rada Tomova is an associate director in the EBRD’s capital and financial markets development (CFMD) team, where she is the head of the regional policy partnerships group. Graduating with distinction (first class honours) from the London School of Economics in 2004, Rada started her career at Deutsche Bank in London, where she worked in debt capital and derivatives markets focusing on central and eastern Europe from 2004 until 2011. She has extensive experience in implementing macro-financial assistance programmes, financial sector regulation and macro-prudential policy, having worked at the European Commission’s DG ECFIN and DG FISMA in Brussels for 7 years since September 2011. Rada joined the EBRD in October 2018 and has worked on projects in both debt and equity capital markets, as well as capital markets infrastructure, in multiple countries across the bank’s regions. Her areas of expertise include debt capital markets, financial markets diagnostics and regulation, macro-prudential frameworks, market infrastructure reforms, the alignment of prudential and supervisory frameworks for banks and central clearing counterparties with EU standards and related equivalence assessments, and covered bonds reform. At EBRD, Rada has also worked extensively with banking teams on developing capital markets investment projects and on transition impact assessments of capital markets transactions. Since June 2022, Rada has led the regional policy partnerships team within CFMD which is responsible for market diagnostics and policy prioritisation and delivery in capital and financial markets in all the EBRD’s countries of operations. In her spare time, Rada enjoys reading, travelling, cooking and practicing yoga.