Rémy Rioux

An expert in economics and international financial institutions, Rémy Rioux has held high-level positions in a career devoted to development, Africa and the French economy. After serving as Chief of Staff of the French Economy and Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici, he was appointed by Laurent Fabius as Deputy Secretary General of the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and coordinated the finance agenda for the French Presidency of COP21, up to the final negotiation of the Paris Agreement. 

In 2016, Rémy Rioux took over as Chief Executive Officer of Agence Française de Développement, whose mandate was expanded and benefited from increased resources. He was reappointed in 2019 and again in 2022. In 2017, Rémy Rioux was also elected Chair of the International Development Finance Club (IDFC), a group gathering 26 of the largest national and regional development banks in the world and the largest provider of public development and climate finance. He held this position until October 2023, prior to becoming its Vice-Chair.

In November 2020, Rémy Rioux hosted the inaugural Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) in Paris, bringing together all the Public Development Banks in the world for the first time. Today they form a global coalition to collectively develop their strategies, investment models, activities and operating procedures to contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the objectives of the Paris Agreement. The FiCS is held every year on a different continent. 

In 2024, he was mandated by the French President, Emmanuel Macron, and the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, to organize the first International Summit on Sport for Sustainable Development, on the eve of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

• Rémy Rioux is the author of Réconciliations (2019), an essay in which he calls for a reinvention of the development policy aligned with the SDGs and the Paris Agreement 

• He is co-author, with Achille Mbembe, of Pour un monde en commun (2022), in which he calls for a new form of collective action, a “diplomacy of the living”