PROFILE
 

Jelena Madir is the General Counsel of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance in Geneva.  Prior to joining Gavi, she spent nearly 11 years at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, where she worked as a transactional lawyer, headed the Financial Law Unit – a dedicated unit focused on regulatory reforms in the areas of corporate governance, FinTech, insolvency and access to finance, and was also on secondments in EBRD’s compliance department and at the Bank of England.  Previously, Jelena worked for several US law firms in Washington, DC, Frankfurt and Zagreb.  She also teaches Law of International Project Finance and FinTech: Law and Regulation at the University of London’s distance learning LLM programme.