Back to all speakersAfrica EV Summit | Addis Ababa | 2026
Petro Pavlou, XVA Structurer at FirstRand Merchant BankSummit speaker
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Petro
Pavlou

XVA Structurer

FirstRand Merchant Bank

Biography

Structuring
bankable finance.

Bringing structured-finance and risk expertise to the funding of new mobility assets.

Petro Pavlou is an XVA Structurer at FirstRand Merchant Bank and a financial-markets practitioner working across structured finance, pricing and risk.

His experience brings a banking perspective to the challenge of financing new asset classes whose performance, residual value and operating risks are still being established in African markets.

For electric mobility, those questions shape how lenders assess vehicles, charging infrastructure and the blended-finance instruments designed to reduce early-market risk.

At the Nordic–Africa EV Summit, Petro contributes to the discussion on bank financing and the role of blended finance in accelerating the EV transition.

01Structured Finance
02Risk Management
03Capital Markets
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