EDFI Management Company Board Chair Transition – Søren Peter Andreasen Passes the Baton to Linda Broekhuizen

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Lugano, 27 May 2026 — EDFI Management Company (EDFI MC), the joint platform of European Development Finance Institutions for innovative development finance solutions, today appointed Linda Broekhuizen as the next Chair of its Board of Directors. She succeeds Søren Peter Andreasen, who has chaired the Board since 2016 when the company was founded and who steps down after a decade of transformative leadership at the helm of EDFI MC.

A Decade of Transformative Leadership

Søren Peter Andreasen has been a central pillar of EDFI Management Company since its inception. As the founding Chair of the Board of Directors and concurrently serving as CEO of the EDFI Association at the time, he guided the company from its creation in 2016, when it was established to manage €75 million in EU-delegated ElectriFI funding, into a major European platform for blended finance.

Under his chairmanship, EDFI MC grew from a single-mandate start-up into a sophisticated multi-business-line organisation managing an asset base that expanded from €75 million at founding to over now €410 million in direct investments, securing over €1.6 billion in EFSD+ guarantees from the European Union, and managing € 680 million co-investment facilities between EDFIs and EIB. This trajectory represents a significant expansion of EU-backed development finance capacity in support of sustainable private sector development in frontier markets.

Søren Peter Andreasen said: “It has been a great honour to chair the Board of EDFI Management Company for the past 10 years. What started as a small, purposeful experiment in European development finance collaboration has grown into something genuinely transformative, a platform that has already mobilised over a billion euros for entrepreneurs in frontier markets and brought clean energy to many millions of people who lacked it. I am proud of what this team has built together, and I leave the Chair role with full confidence that Linda Broekhuizen is exactly the right person to lead EDFI MC’s governance into its next chapter. Her depth of experience in development finance, governance, and sustainable impact investing make her an exceptional choice to lead EDFI MC for the next leg of its journey together with a strong board of directors and the strong management team led by CEO Rodrigo Madrazo.”

Linda Broekhuizen Appointed as New Chair

EDFI Management Company is pleased to welcome Linda Broekhuizen as the new Chair of its Board of Directors. She brings to the role a career of over two decades at the heart of European development finance, a rare combination of executive leadership and board governance experience, and a deep personal commitment to inclusive, climate-positive impact investing.

Linda Broekhuizen spent more than 20 years at FMO, the Netherlands Development Finance Institution, including eight years as a member of the FMO Management Board. In that executive capacity, she served as Chief Investment Officer from 2014, responsible for FMO’s total global investment portfolio spanning Africa, Asia, and Latin America. She also served as Interim CEO of FMO, demonstrating her capacity to provide institutional leadership at the highest level.

Her appointment reflects EDFI MC’s commitment to rigorous board governance, based on best practices and a diverse and experienced board composition. In her post-FMO career, Ms Broekhuizen has built a strong portfolio of non-executive leadership roles in development finance and sustainability — including as Chair of the Board of the European Fund for Southeast Europe (EFSE), Chair of Foodvalley NL, and member of the Supervisory Boards of Triple Jump and Climate Fund Managers. She arrives at EDFI MC at a pivotal moment, as the company manages an increasingly complex portfolio of guarantee programmes, investment facilities, and syndication vehicles on behalf of European DFIs and in partnership with the European Commission.

Linda Broekhuizen said: “I am deeply honoured to take on the Chair role at EDFI Management Company. EDFI MC has achieved extraordinary results under Søren’s leadership, building a platform that is now a trusted partner of the EU and a genuine catalyst for private investment in the world’s most challenging markets. I look forward to working with the Board, the shareholders, and Rodrigo and the EDFI MC team to ensure the strongest possible governance foundation for EDFI MC’s continued growth. There has never been a more important moment for European development finance to demonstrate its value, and I am committed to ensuring EDFI MC plays a leading role in that effort.”

EDFI MC CEO Rodrigo Madrazo added: “On behalf of the EDFI MC team, I want to express our deep gratitude to Søren for his extraordinary commitment and vision as Chair since our founding. His leadership has been foundational to everything we have built. At the same time, we are truly excited to welcome Linda. Her combination of FMO executive experience, EU development finance knowledge, and multi-stakeholder board leadership is exactly what EDFI MC needs as we continue to scale our impact in frontier markets. We look forward to working closely with her.”

About EDFI Management Company

EDFI Management Company (EDFI MC) is a multilaterally owned impact asset manager which delivers innovative development finance solutions that enable European DFIs, development banks and private sector investors to increase the scale and impact of their work in frontier markets. The company focuses on business models, technologies and geographies where other investors have not been able to operate at the desired scale given their resources and investment criteria. For more information, visit www.edfimc.eu.