Olivier Vidal 2022 speaker

Financial Sector Specialist

World Bank Group

Biography

Olivier Vidal is a Global Housing Finance Specialist in the long term finance unit of the World Bank Group. In this capacity, Olivier Vidal is the technical lead on a variety of housing finance lending operations and technical assistance projects in sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, Latin America and South East asia. Prior to his move to Washington, Olivier Vidal was for 4 years the Francophone Program Manager of the Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF) in Johannesburg. before joining CAHF, he worked for six years for the African Development Bank in the Financial Sector Development department as a financial sector advisor. He holds a Master’s degree in economics and international development from the Institute of Political Studies – Sciences-Po Toulouse, France, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Aix-Marseille University, France.