Jean-Baptiste Sabatié is Proparco’s Deputy CEO since July 2024. He has close to 25 years of experience in the field of public and private sector impact finance. He started his career with the BNP Paribas Group in 1999, first in Chile and then in Paris, working on structuring and syndicating acquisition financing and on debt restructuring.

He joined Proparco’s commitments department in 2009 before taking up the position of Chief Risk Officer from 2012 to 2014. He was then Deputy Secretary General of the institution until his move towards the international network of the French Development Agency (AFD) in summer 2016.

In the summer of 2020, he left his functions as regional director for Mexico, Cuba and Central America, as well as country director for Mexico, to join AFD’s headquarters. Until taking up his current position, he was AFD’s Director of Transformation, responsible in particular for steering and implementing the AFD Group’s transformation program. Jean-Baptiste Sabatié is a graduate of ESCP Europe.