Dziurman Sabina

Director for Greece and Cyprus, EBRD

Dziurman Sabina

Director for Greece and Cyprus, EBRD

Biography

Ms Dziurman started working in Greece in 1979 in the tourism sector – she changed career following an MBA. Her first contract with the EBRD was in 1991 where she set up a training course for privatisation officials in St Petersburg, Russia before becoming an expert for the development of viable commercial banking sectors in countries of the former Soviet Union. She spent 12 years as a freelance consultant focussing on banking and SME credit lines, mainly for EBRD but also for organisations such as DFID and World Bank in; Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

In 2004, she became a staff member of EBRD, initially joining the Group for Small Business and later the Financial Institutions Group which provides equity and a range of debt products to 350 partner institutions across EBRD’s countries of operations. She successfully led landmark transactions such as the rescue of Latvia’s Parex Bank and the EBRD’s first investment in Cyprus in the Bank of Cyprus.

Sabina was appointed Director for Greece and Cyprus at EBRD in July 2015 and has been based in Athens since September of that year.

Ms Dziurman, a British citizen, was educated at London University and London Business School.