Human rights and community support coordinator
Email: ola AT bankwatch.orgTel.: +48 601325242
Aleksandra (Ola) specializes in human rights due diligence of the financial institutions. She cooperates with the civil society and affected communities outside Europe bringing the cases of human rights abuses to the policy makers. She holds an MA in philosophy (Szczecin University) and postgraduate studies in Global Development and Policy Management (SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw).
More from Aleksandra Antonowicz-Cyglicka
EIB Global: new branding, old problems
July 20, 2022 | Read more
With the launch of its new development branch EIB Global, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has shown its appetite for becoming a significant player in the field of development finance. However, without a major change in the Bank’s management and the shareholders’ approach to the impacts of its operations, EIB Global will remain a public relations exercise and a lost cause.
This briefing highlights the lack of public scrutiny over export credit agencies (ECAs) in central and eastern Europe.
The EIB’s safeguard rules must match its global ambitions
February 1, 2022 | Read more
The EU’s house bank has great development aspirations, but its draft environmental and social policy has dangerous gaps that will come back to haunt it.
Kenya energy project exposes the dark side of EU development funds
October 13, 2021 | Read more
A third of the European Investment Bank (EIB) portfolio in 2020 went through financial intermediaries, a channel that has already enabled multiple projects with devastating consequences for nature and communities with virtually zero accountability. The ongoing review of the EIB’s environmental and social standards is a crucial opportunity to ensure transparency and proper scrutiny of all projects supported with European public money.
When courts help cloak export credit agencies’ financial clout
April 19, 2021 | Read more
Operating far from the public eye, export credit agencies offer state backing worth billions of dollars every year that in too many cases have enabled both the fossil fuels industry and human rights abuses around the world. These influential public finance institutions have also been relentless in resisting civil society legal challenges to shine a light on how they use public money.
