elitza.kavrakova@rbinternational.com

Born in Bulgaria, Elitza moved to Austria in 1994 and studied macroeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. Later on she accomplished as well her Master of Law at the Kepler University of Linz, Austria. She started her career at Raiffeisen Zentralbank Austria AG in the Trade Finance area in 1999 and a few years later joined the Financial Institutions team, covering as a Senior the SEE region, originating across the whole commercial and capital markets/IB product universe for banks and non-bank FIs.

In 2008 Elitza took over the lead of the FI team for CEE, managing the portfolio successfully through the financial crisis and beyond. Since 2019 Elitza is heading the Institutional Clients East team of RBI AG covering CEE, CIS, SEE and Turkey with a strong focus on transaction banking, trade and export finance.