Chicago Atlantic Trident is Chicago Atlantic’s impact investing strategy supporting international reconstruction efforts to rebuild a prosperous Ukraine. The strategy targets projects, companies and organizations that create measurable social and development impact. Its objective is to facilitate industrial growth by investing in Ukraine’s industrial sector, including a wide range of industrial projects, including factories, warehouses, and logistics centers. Chicago Atlantic Trident also focuses on affordable housing to meet the urgent need for affordable living spaces. It seeks investments in high-quality, yet cost-effective residential projects, catering to the growing demand for economical housing solutions.
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Mr. Malpass is Senior Advisor at Chicago Atlantic and member of Chicago Atlantic Trident’s Advisory Committee. Mr. Malpass was the 13th President of the World Bank Group (2019-2023). During his tenure, he focused on promoting stronger policies to increase economic growth, alleviate poverty, improve living standards, and reduce government debt burdens. Under his leadership, the World Bank Group responded quickly to global crises—mobilizing a record $440 billion in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, sharp global economic slowdowns, unsustainable debt burdens, climate change, and food, fertilizer, and energy shortages. The World Bank Group also more than doubled its climate finance to developing countries during Mr. Malpass’s presidency, reaching a record $32 billion in 2022.
Prior to his appointment at the World Bank, Mr. Malpass served as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs for the United States. Mr. Malpass represented the United States in international settings, including the G7 and G20 Deputy Finance Ministerial, World Bank–IMF Spring and Annual Meetings, the Financial Stability Board, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
Before joining the U.S. Treasury, Mr. Malpass was an international economist and founder of a macroeconomics research firm based in New York City. He served as Chief Economist at Bear Stearns and conducted financial analyses of countries around the world.
Previously, Mr. Malpass served as the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Developing Nations, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Economic Affairs. He focused on an array of foreign policy and development issues, including U.S. involvement in multilateral institutions, the World Bank’s 1988 capital increase—which supported the creation of the Bank’s environment division, the Enterprise for the America’s Initiative, and Brady bonds to address the Latin American debt crisis. He also served as Senior Analyst for Taxes and Trade at the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and as Staff Director of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.
Mr. Malpass has served on the boards of the Council of the Americas, Economic Club of New York, National Committee on U.S.–China Relations, Manhattan Institute, and Gary Klinsky Children’s Centers, as well as various for-profit entities. He is the author of numerous articles on economic development.
Mr. Malpass earned his bachelor’s degree from Colorado College and his MBA from the University of Denver. He was a CPA and undertook advanced graduate work in international economics at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and has studied Spanish, Russian, and French.
Mr. Tsitsiragos is Senior Advisor at Chicago Atlantic and member of Chicago Atlantic Trident’s Advisory Committee. Previously, he was a Vice President at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), member of the World Bank Group, where he spent more than 28 years.
He held progressively more prestigious positions in the Oil, Gas, and Mining, and Central and Eastern European departments, including appointments as Manager, Oil and Gas, and Manager, Manufacturing and Services (1989-2002). Mr. Tsitsiragos also held director positions at the IFC for South Asia, as well as overseeing the IFC’s global and regional investment operations in the Middle East, North Africa, and Southern Europe (2002-2011). Mr. Tsitsiragos was promoted to Vice President, EMENA region in 2011, and was appointed Vice President Investments/Operations in 2014.
Mr. Tsitsiragos served as a Senior Advisor for Emerging Markets at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) in London, UK (2018-2022). He currently sits on the Board of Directors at Alpha Bank where he is Chair of the Remuneration Committee, and a Member of the Risk Management Committee. He also sits on the Board of Directors at Titan Cement International.
Mr. Tsitsiragos has previously served as a Non-Executive Independent Board Member at the Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC), and at the Commercial Bank of Ceylon (CBC).
He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Rutgers University, and an MBA from the George Washington University. He has also completed the World Bank Group Executive Development Program at the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Sarris is Senior Advisor at Chicago Atlantic and member of Chicago Atlantic Trident’s Advisory Committee. Mr. Sarris was formerly the Minister of Finance of Cyprus and Director at the World Bank.
Mr. Sarris joined the research department of the Central Bank of Cyprus in 1972, before moving to the Bank of Cyprus to work in planning and project analysis in 1974. Mr. Sarris was then employed by the World Bank in 1975. During his career, Mr. Sarris’ work has covered a broad range of sectors and geographies across Europe, Africa, Latin America, and East Asia. At the World Bank, he supervised the design of overall country strategies, provided advice on policy issues for economic and social development, elaborated programs for structural adjustments, and developed economic policy dialogue between the World Bank and national authorities of countries seeking assistance. Mr. Sarris retired from the World Bank as Department Director in 2004.
The President of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, appointed Mr. Sarris as Minister of Finance in 2005, a position he held until 2008. During Mr. Sarris’s tenure as Minister of Finance, Cyprus prepared for and introduced the euro as its national currency.
Mr. Sarris currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at AstroBank. He was previously Chairman and Chairman of Nominations Committee at Cyprus Popular Bank, Non-Executive Independent Director and Member of Audit Committee at AFI Development, and Non-Executive Director at FxPro. Mr. Sarris was also Director, Chairman of Audit Committee, and Member of Conflicts Committee at Navios Maritime Partners, and Member of the Board of Takis Louki Nemitsas Foundation.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the London School of Economics & Political Science, and a PhD in Economics from Wayne State University.
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