Slovenian national Anton Rop has been named a vice-president and member of the Management Committee of the European Investment Bank (EIB). He took up his new duties on 18 August. Rop succeeds Marta Gajecka, who has completed a three-year term as EIB vice-president. Rop was appointed by the EIB’s Board of Governors, with the agreement of the other members of the shareholder constituency to which Slovenia belongs, namely Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hungary, Malta, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. In the bank’s Management Committee, Rop will hold supervisory responsibility for operations in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia and for financing in support of the development of the trans-European transport and energy networks (TENs). Before joining the EIB, Rop was a member of Slovenia’s national assembly. He was labour minister and then finance minister between 1996 and 2000 and served as his country’s prime minister, from 2002 to 2004.