ESMA appoints new member to its Management Board

ESMA Guidelines and Recommendations

Date: 15 June 2018

On 23rd May 2018, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) appointed one new member to its Management Board to replace an outgoing member, whose term has ended, and reappointed two current members. The appointments took place at the Board of Supervisors meeting in Paris on 23 May.

The new member is:

• Derville Rowland, Central Bank of Ireland (CBI);

The members who have been reappointed are:

• Elisabeth Roegele, Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin), Germany; and
• Gabriela Figueiredo Dias, Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM), Portugal.
The new, and reappointed, members will serve a 2½ year term commencing on 1 June 2018.

The outgoing member is:

• Klaus Kumpfmüller, Finanzmarktaufsicht (FMA), Austria.

The Management Board, chaired by Steven Maijoor, Chair of ESMA, is responsible for ensuring that the Authority carries out its mission and performs the tasks assigned to it under its founding Regulation. The Management Board now consists of:

• Steven Maijoor, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA);
• Elisabeth Roegele, Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin), Germany;
• Derville Rowland, Central Bank of Ireland (CBI);
• Sebastian Albella-Amigo, Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), Spain;
• Robert Ophèle, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), France;
• Gabriela Figueiredo Dias, Comissão do Mercado de Valores Mobiliários (CMVM), Portugal; and
• Erik Thedéen, Finansinspektionen (FI), Sweden.