my gue5t today is the president, sir suma chakrabarti. today is the president, sir suma chakra barti.5e today is the president, sir suma chakra barti. these days, today is the president, sir suma chakrabarti. these days, many of his investment projects are actually in turkey, central asia, and north africa. has mi55ion creep undermined the values of the ebrd. sirsuma sir suma chakrabarti, sir suma chakra barti, welcome sir suma chakrabarti, welcome to hardtalk. it is nice to be would you agree with me that your bank has moved an awful long way from those early days and from its original mission? i would early days and from its original mission? iwould not. iwould certainly agree with you that we have expanded geographically, but the mission is the same. private sector development, the creation of effect of markets. but because of the success of the business model, we decided we should expand to central asia and africa, as you said. it is a sign of success, not mi55ion creep. said. it is a sign of success, not mission creep. the problem with that i5 mission creep. the problem with that

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my guest today is bank president, sir suma chakrabarti. ys, many of his investment projects are actually in turkey, central asia and north africa. has mission creep undermined the values of the ebrd? suma chakra barti, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. would you agree with me that your bank has moved an awful long way from those early days and from its original mission? no, i wouldn't. i would certainly agree with you that we have expanded our geography, but i would say the mission is the same. private sector development, the creation of affective markets, we're still actually operating in our traditional region but because of the success of that business model, our shareholders did actually agree that we should expand to central asia, to turkey and north africa as you said but actually i think it's a sign of success rather than mission creep. the only problem with that is that from the very beginning, yours always was a financial institution that was underpinned by a clear statement of values. and in the places that you've just outline