Bodo Ellmers is Managing Director and also Director of the Financing for Development and International Financial Architecture program area at Global Policy Forum Europe. He has authored numerous influential research reports, blogs and articles on development finance, with a particular focus on debt crisis resolution and aid effectiveness. Bodo represents GPF Europe in the coordinating bodies of several international NGO networks, including the Global Alliance for Tax Justice and the Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism. He is a recognized expert on reform processes at the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Before joining GPF Europe, Bodo worked for the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad) in Brussels for eleven years, most recently as Head of Policy. During his time at Eurodad, he was active in UNCTAD expert groups, represented the interests of civil society organizations in the OECD Working Party on Aid Effectiveness, coordinated the advocacy of European civil society organizations at the International Monetary Fund and advised the UN General Assembly on debt crisis resolution.
In previous positions, he was policy advisor for the German branch of the Global Call to Action against Poverty during the influential campaign at the German G8 summit in Heiligendamm and the second UN Conference on Financing for Development in Doha. He has also worked as a consultant for the UN Millennium Campaign, VENRO, CONCORD and WEED.
Bodo is a founding member of the Global Policy Forum Europe. He studied economics and political science at the Free University of Berlin. He speaks English, German and some Spanish and French.
