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Jo Swyngedouw is Head of the Financial Stability, Prudential Policy and AML Supervision Department at the National Bank of Belgium (NBB). The department develops prudential policy for banks, monitors financial stability and supervises the compliance of the anti-money laundering provisions of the financial institutions. Before joining the NBB on 1 April 2011, Jo was deputy director of the prudential policy department of the former CBFA.

Jo studied law and economics (M.A.) at the K.U. Leuven (Belgium) and is lecturer at the University of Antwerp.

Jo has a long-standing experience in prudential supervision and is member of several international prudential committees and fora.

Since the inception of the European Banking Authority (EBA), Jo is alternate or member (since 2013) of the Board of Supervisors, was member of the Management Board and was Vice-Chairman of the EBA from July 2018 until July 2023. In that capacity, Jo acted as interim Chairperson of the EBA in the period January until May 2019. Since February 2020, Jo is Chair of the EBA Standing Committee on Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the financing of Terrorism (AMLSC).

Jo is also alternate member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and among others, he was previously alternate member of the Supervisory Board of the ECB (2014-2017) and chair of the working group on ‘internal governance and remuneration’ of CEBS/EBA (2009-2014).     

Jo is also member (since its inception in 2017) of the Belgian Board for Supervision of External Auditors (College van toezicht op de bedrijfsrevisoren/Collège de supervision des réviseurs d’entreprise), representing the NBB.      

 

Après des études en sciences politiques, en relations internationales et en droit, Julie a commencé sa carrière au sein de l’Administration de la Trésorerie, dans le service Compliance. Elle y a été experte sur le Registre des bénéficiaires effectifs, et est actuellement en charge du Registre UBO depuis un peu plus de 3 ans. Elle fournit également de l’assistance technique et partage son expertise sur la transparence des personnes morales et les bénéficiaires effectifs à plusieurs pays en Afrique et au Moyen-Orient, tout en participant à des workshops sur le registre UBO avec d’autres pays européens.

Hans Van Hemelrijck has a Master in Economic Sciences and a Graduate in Fiscal Sciences. He previously worked at the Belgian intelligence service VSSE, after starting his career working for different financial institutions. In 2009 he joined the Belgian FIU (CTIF-CFI), where he is currently heading the Strategic Analysis department, investigating trends and typologies in money laundering and terrorist financing.