Senior Fellow, Bruegel
Rebecca Christie is a senior 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. In 2024 she served as a senior economist at the European Central Bank, working on capital markets union. 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.
Member of the European Parliament
Fernando Navarrete is a Member of the European Parliament for the 10th legislature, elected in 2024. He serves as Deputy Coordinator for the European People's Party (EPP) in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) and as Coordinator for the EPP in the Subcommittee on Tax Matters (FISC). With over two decades of experience in economic policy and financial regulation, Navarrete has held senior leadership positions at the highest levels of public administration and central banking. Before joining the European Parliament, he was Chief of Staff to the Governor of Banco de España, where he played a pivotal role in shaping the bank’s strategy and gained deep insight into the workings of the Eurosystem and the Single Supervisory Mechanism. Prior to that, he served as Secretary General of the Spanish Treasury, overseeing financial policy and debt management for the Spanish government. He had previously been Director General of the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (Spain’s national development bank), where he played a key role in economic development initiatives. Earlier in his career, he led the Economic and Public Policy Department at FAES, designing a policy agenda to address the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. He started his professional journey as an economist at Banco de España, where he monitored the national implementation of the European banking regulatory framework.
Team Leader, Digital Euro, DG FISMA, European Commission
Biography coming soon.
Senior Adviser, Directorate Digital Euro, ECB
Mr Ignacio Terol works at the ECB as strategy manager of the digital euro project in which he has been involved from its initiation. In this position, he and his team provide technical support to EU co-legislators on the digital euro regulation. Before this, he was involved in the provision of market infrastructures settling in central bank money at the ECB: TARGET2-Securities (T2S) and TIPS. Mr Terol holds a masters in economics and business administration from the Centro Universitario de Estudios Financieros (CUNEF).
Senior Director, Innovation & Cybersecurity, European Banking Federation
Alexandra is leading the European Banking Federation’s work on digital finance. Main topics under her remit include: the digital euro, open finance, payments, AI, cybersecurity/digital operational resilience, simplification in legislation on digital. Working closely with bank associations throughout Europe, she is responsible for the EBF digital innovation and cybersecurity strategy, positioning on legislative/regulatory processes, relations with EU institutions, and projects aimed at regulatory harmonization.