NEW VICE-PRESIDENT AT THE EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK.

Upon recommendation from the Board of Directors of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Francis Mayer has been appointed to the post of Vice-President of the Bank. Mr Mayer will take up his duties at the beginning of October. Born in Strasbourg, France, in 1950, Mr Mayer will replace Ariane Obolensky, who has held the post of EIB Vice-President since July 1994 and has just been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the BDPME, a development bank serving small and medium-sized...