Tom Hackett

Former and Honorary Director General of European Investment Bank (EIB)

Tom Hackett was, until August 2012 when he retired, a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and Executive Director of the European Investment Bank (EIB) with a remit to help develop activity between the two international financial institutions in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine.
Before joining the EBRD in May 2010, Tom Hackett was Director-General at EIB from July 2005 and was in charge of its lending to the 27 Member States of the EU, Turkey and the Western Balkans. During that period, and especially in response to the financial and economic crisis, EIB’s European annual lending rose to 75 billion euro. Prior to that, he was in charge of EIB lending in various EU regions including Poland and the Nordic countries (from 2004), Italy and Greece (from 1999) and the UK (from 1994). Tom Hackett began his EIB career in 1981 in capital markets and his banking career in 1968 with S. G. Warburg.
Tom Hackett was a trustee of Fulham Palace Trust until he reached the renewal limit and remains a trustee of Bishop Creighton House, Fulham, London. He is a Director of Retail Charity Bonds Plc, a platform to enable charities to obtain long-term funding for self-financing projects.