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Associate Director, Division of Trading and Markets, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Head of unit - Financial Markets Infrastructure, European Commission
Jennifer Robertson joined the European Commission in 2004 and has worked in DG Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union since 2005. She is currently a Head of Unit in the unit responsible for financial markets infrastructure. Previously she worked on retail financial services issues and SME finance in various departments of the European Commission. Before working at the Commission, she worked as a senior economist for 5 years at the European Savings Banks Group on issues ranging from the introduction of the euro to the integration of European financial services markets. Her professional experience also includes working as an economic researcher for a financial communications consultancy in Washington DC, USA. She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow (UK) and received a Master degree in International Economics and European Studies at the School for Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University (Italy and USA).
Head of Government Relations, EMEA, DTCC
Michalis heads Government Relations in Europe for the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation - DTCC. He is responsible for DTCC’s policy and regulatory strategy in EMEA and has been running the DTCC’s Brussels office since 2011. Michalis represents the firm before policymakers, supervisors and industry, having the oversight of DTCC’s overall policy and regulatory activity on capital markets, clearing and settlement, trade reporting, operational resilience and data flows. He is a thought leader in European capital markets and a recognized expert on clearing and new financial technologies. Michalis is an occasional Visiting Lecturer in several European Universities and is fluent in English, French and Greek. Prior to this, Michalis has worked for a top tier policy advisory in Brussels, a couple of political think tanks and the European Commission. A Greek and Belgian national, Michalis has academic degrees in international politics and political economy from UK and Greek universities. In his free time, he enjoys playing and composing music.
Executive Director, Securities Services, JP Morgan
Head of Markets and Digital Innovation, ESMA
Carsten joined ESMA in 2012, became Team Leader for Secondary Markets in 2014 and Head of the Trading Unit in 2019. Currently he is the Head of the newly established Markets and Digital Innovation Department. The Department is responsible for developing implementing measures and supervisory convergence in the EU for secondary markets, market integrity, short selling, post-trading and settlement and commodity derivative issues. The Department is also covering implementation and convergence in the EU for crypto markets and digital operational resilience plus other files in the area of digital innovation. Prior to joining ESMA, Carsten was a seconded expert at the European Commission. He also served as a policy officer in the German Ministry of Finance and Germany’s financial regulator BaFin. Before joining the public sector, Carsten was a consultant for a consultancy in London. He holds a German law degree and an LL.M. in international law and is qualified as a lawyer in Germany and as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Europe Columnist, Reuters Breakingviews
Rebecca Christie is a non-resident fellow at Bruegel, the Brussels-based economic policy think tank. She writes and speaks publicly about EU politics, financial regulation, tax and climate finance issues. Previously, she was the lead author on "Safeguarding the Euro in Times of Crisis", the official history of the European Stability Mechanism, and worked for more than 20 years as an economics and politics correspondent for Bloomberg News, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times.
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