Annie Ropar

Annie was appointed as an independent Non-Executive Director of the Development Bank of Wales in July 2025. 

She is Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of the National Wealth Fund and was previously one of the first employees of the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB), joining as its inaugural Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. 

Annie also spent five years with Aequitas NEO Exchange Inc. (now CBOE Canada), and nine years with Royal Bank of Canada’s Capital Markets arm, where her career spanned finance, private equity and the institutional equity trading business.