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Ernest Gnan

Secretary General
SUERF
Ernest Gnan

Francesco Mazzaferro

Head of the Secretariat
ESRB
Francesco Mazzaferro
  • Francesco Mazzaferro

    Francesco Mazzaferro has been the Head of the Secretariat of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) since January 2011. Prior to that, he was the Project Manager of the ESRB Preparatory Secretariat, which started work in March 2010. He began his career in financial research in the Research Department of the Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino (today part of Intesa Sanpaolo) in Turin, Italy, in 1987. He joined the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, in 1992, starting his international career in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, where his work focused on the European Currency Unit and preparations for the introduction of the single currency. In 1995 Mazzaferro joined the European Monetary Institute – which later became the European Central Bank – in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as the Officer of Policy Planning. In 1998 he became the Senior European Relations Officer in the European Relations Division. From 2000 he worked as Principal in the EU Neighbouring Regions Division, becoming the Head of Division in 2003. Mazzaferro studied law at the University of Bologna and wrote his Master’s thesis on “EU law and legal aspects of the euro”. Mazzaferro has been working in the field of European monetary policy for almost 20 years. Currently he is the Head of the ESRB Secretariat.

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Matti Leppälä

Secretary General
PensionsEurope
Matti Leppälä

Michaela Zattler

Director Banking Supervision and Accounting
Association of German Banks
Michaela Zattler

Hans Degryse

Finance Professor
KU Leuven
Hans Degryse

Federico Cupelli

Deputy Director Regulatory Policy
EFAMA
Federico Cupelli

Eric de Montgolfier

CEO
Invest Europe
Eric de Montgolfier

Thea Utoft Høj Jensen

Director General
Insurance Europe
Thea Utoft Høj Jensen

Jean-Paul Servais

Chairman
IOSCO
Jean-Paul Servais

Peter Praet

Former Chief Economist of the ECB and Honorary Member of SUERF
Peter Praet
  • Peter Praet

    Peter Praet joined the European Central Bank as Member of the Executive Board in 2011. He is responsible for the Directorate General Economics.

    Mr Praet gained a PhD. in economics from the Université libre de Bruxelles in 1980. He was an Economist at the International Monetary Fund from 1978 to 1980, Professor of Economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles from 1980 to 1987, Chief Economist of Générale de Banque and Fortis Bank from 1988 to 1999 and Chef de cabinet for the Belgian Minister of Finance from 1999 to 2000. Before joining the ECB, he was Executive Director of the Nationale Bank van België/Banque Nationale de Belgique from 2000 to 2011. Here, he was responsible for International Cooperation, Financial Stability and Oversight of Financial Infrastructures and Payments Systems. Between 2002 and 2011 he was also a member of the Management Committee of the Belgian Banking, Financial and Insurance Commission, where he was responsible for prudential policy for banking and insurance.

    Mr Praet has served on several high-level international bodies, including the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems, the Committee on the Global Financial System and the European Banking Authority. He was First Alternate of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements from 2000 to 2011.

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Claudio Borio

Head of Monetary and Economic Department
BIS
Claudio Borio
  • Claudio Borio

    Claudio Borio was appointed Head of the Monetary and Economic Department on 18 November 2013.

    At the BIS since 1987, Mr Borio has held various positions in the Monetary and Economic Department (MED), including Deputy Head of MED and Director of Research and Statistics as well as Head of Secretariat for the Committee on the Global Financial System and the Gold and Foreign Exchange Committee (now the Markets Committee).

    From 1985 to 1987, he was an economist at the OECD, working in the country studies branch of the Economics and Statistics Department. Prior to that, he was Lecturer and Research Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford University. He holds a DPhil and an MPhil in Economics and a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the same university.

    Fields of interest

    • Monetary economics and policy
    • Financial stability
    • Banking and finance
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Pierre Wunsch

Governor
National Bank of Belgium
Pierre Wunsch
  • Pierre Wunsch

    Qualifications

    PhD in Economics (UCL)
    Master’s degree in Public and International Affairs (Princeton)

    Career 

    • Governor of the National Bank of Belgium since 02.01.2019
    • Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Belgium (11.03.2015-01.01.2019)
    • Director of the National Bank of Belgium (01.06.2011-01.01.2019)
    • Director of the "Cellule Stratégique des Finances" (01.10.2008-31.05.2011)
    • Various positions held within Electrabel (2004-2008)
    • Various positions held within Tractebel EGI (2001-2004)
    • Head of cabinet of Alain Zenner, Government Commissioner to the Minister of Finance (2000-2001)
    • Various positions, including deputy head of cabinet, held in the cabinet of Secretary of State Eric André
    • (Brussels-Capital Region) (1996-2000)
    • Expert at the Belgian Federal Planning Bureau (1995-1996)
    • Assistant/researcher: CORE, FUSL, LEI-CREST (INSEE) and DELTA (Ecole Normale Supérieure/university-level teacher training college) (1992-1995)

     

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