As of June 1st, 2026, Grzegorz Zielinski has been appointed to the role of Managing Director, South-Eastern Europe at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), based in Serbia.
Previously, Grzegorz was at the Director position of EBRD’s Energy Europe team, since July 2021, promoting the Bank’s mandate and supporting green transition through debt and equity investments as well as high level policy engagement across the energy sector in Europe, with particular focus on scaling up renewables and development of power grids and energy storage.
In 2014 Grzegorz became the Country Director for Poland with responsibilities further extended to cover the three Baltic states and later the Slovak Republic, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. He led the entire business and policy engagement of the EBRD in eight Central European and Baltic states and managed five EBRD offices across the region.
Grzegorz joined EBRD in 1998 from Ernst & Young and became a banker in the Power and Energy Utilities team in 2001. In this role he led a number Bank’s investments in various geographies before later taking on a regional responsibility for the Central Europe.
Grzegorz has a Master’s degree in business and economics from the University of Gdansk, Poland, and holds a post-graduate certificate in European Integration from the EC Research Institute. He is also a UK-qualified accountant.