David Kuijper is the CEO of the Association of European Development Finance Institutions since September 2023. He previously served as the Manager of Public Investment and Blended Finance at FMO – the Dutch Development Bank. Prior to that he worked at the World Bank Group as Advisor on Trust Fund Reform and Financing for Development.
He joined the Netherlands Foreign Service in 1998, where he held various positions, including Deputy Director for Climate, Deputy Ambassador of the Netherlands to Pakistan, Senior Advisor to the Netherlands Executive Director in the Board of the World Bank, and Head of the Development Cooperation program at the Netherlands Embassy in Accra, Ghana. He is an alumnus of the Free University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and University College Dublin, Ireland.