David has a portfolio of senior management roles in the European public affairs industry and has advised over 100 of the world’s largest financial institutions, technology companies, fintechs and trade associations on their public affairs strategy, stakeholder engagement, and reputation management activities across Europe, the UK and globally. He leads Kreab’s Global Financial Services Practice and is the Founding Partner of the European Financial Policy Advisers Network – covering 10 European countries. David has worked at the European Commission, the Financial Services Authority, McKinsey & Company, and Campbell Lutyens.

Francesco is the Chief Executive Officer at Barclays Europe. Based in Dublin, he serves on the Board of Barclays Bank Ireland PLC, and leads the Barclays Europe Executive Committee.

Francesco joined Barclays in London in 2010, as Global Head of Barclays Corporate Development, where in addition to corporate activity on Barclays’ behalf, he was responsible for all Principal Investments across Barclays Group. In 2018, he moved to the Investment Bank as Co-Head of Barclays EME Financial Institutions Group and was subsequently appointed Chief Executive Officer for Barclays Europe in 2020.

Prior to Barclays, Francesco worked as a Senior Banker at JP Morgan in New York. Before JP Morgan, he held a number of senior roles at Bear Stearns, Lazard and GE Capital.

Francesco holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from University of Oxford and a Master of Science in Economics and Philosophy from the London School of Economics.

Mario Nava is the Director-General of DG REFORM of the European Commission that he joined in 1994. Previously, he held 3 Director and 2 Heads of Unit posts in the DG for financial services. He was also President of Italian Financial Market Authority (CONSOB). He is active in research and teaching at Bocconi University (Milan) and at Solvay Business School (Brussels).

Katharine Braddick joined Barclays in March 2022 in a new role as Group Head of Strategic Policy and senior adviser to the CEO. In this capacity she will define and execute Barclays’ strategic policy agenda, aligning it to Barclays’ multi-jurisdictional government and regulatory landscape. Previously she was Director General for Financial Services at HM Treasury, in which role she also sat on the Financial Stability Board. Previously she worked at the Bank of England, where she was Director of Prudential Policy, and worked at the UK Financial Services Authority in a variety of roles. She began her career in the civil service and has also worked at the Association of British Insurers, leading on regulation of general insurance. Katharine was educated at the Universities of Warwick and Cambridge.

Verena Ross is the Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). She took up the role on 1 November 2021 and is responsible for representing the Authority as well as preparing the work of and chairing its Board of Supervisors and Management Board.

Between 2011 and 2021 Verena Ross served as ESMA’s first Executive Director, when she was responsible for building up the organisation and overseeing its day to day running.

Prior to this, Verena held a number of senior posts in the UK’s Financial Services Authority (FSA) and was a member of the FSA’s Executive Committee. Verena joined the FSA in 1998 to run the Executive Chairman’s office during the regulator’s start-up phase and was briefly a seconded advisor to the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission in 2000. She held various positions in the FSA’s Markets Division and was Director of Strategy & Risk Division before becoming Director of the International Division.

Verena is a German national. Following studies in Sinology and Economics in Hamburg, Taipei and London (SOAS) she began her career at the Bank of England in 1994, where she worked as an economist and banking supervisor.

José Manuel Campa, is the Chairperson of the European Banking Authority (EBA). He was appointed in March 2019 and is serving a renewable five-year term. He represents the Authority and by chairing the meetings of the Board of Supervisors and of the Management Board, he steers the strategic direction of the Authority.

From 2015 and prior to this appointment, Campa served as Global Head of Regulatory Affairs,  for the Grupo Santander.  Prior to that, he was Professor of Finance and Economics at IESE Business School.

Between 2009 and 2011 Campa served as Secretary of State for the Economy in the Ministry of Economy and Finances of Spain.  He was a member of the Financial Stability Board, the board of the European Financial Stability Facility, the Economic and Financial Committee and alternate governor in multilateral financial institutions. He has served in the Expert Group, chair by Mr. Erkki Liikanen, evaluating policy recommendations on structural reforms for the European Banking industry.

He has also taught at the Stern School of Business of New York University and at Columbia University. He has been Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research. Mr. Campa has also been a consultant to a large number of international organizations, including the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, and the European Commission.

He has served on the boards of Prime Collateralised Securities (PCS) Europe, Bruegel, and General de Alquiler de Maquinaria.

José Manuel Campa holds a Ph.D. and a master degree in economics from Harvard University and a Licenciatura in law and in economics from the Universidad de Oviedo.

Jenny Bofinger-Schuster was appointed as a full-time member of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) effective 1 December 2022.

Prior to joining the ISSB, Ms. Bofinger-Schuster served in multiple senior management positions at Siemens. In her last role, as Senior Vice President for sustainability and operational excellence, she was responsible for developing the company’s sustainability strategy and for implementing new disclosure requirements.Her passion is to solve strategic challenges and to ensure that sustainability is an integral part of the company’s decision making.

Before entering the world of sustainability, she held senior positions at Siemens Management Consulting and at Horváth Management Consulting, solving the toughest business challenges for her clients from different industries around the world.

Jenny Bofinger-Schuster holds a Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Augsburg and an MBA from the University of Dayton, Ohio.

She is a mother of two boys and very much enjoys spending her weekends as soccer mom.

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Brad Levy is the chief executive officer at Symphony, the leading financial markets’ infrastructure and technology platform.

Prior to Symphony, Brad was a partner and executive at global analytics and information provider, IHS Markit, having also served as CEO of MarkitSERV and global head of its loan settlement and software services division. Earlier in his career, he spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs, culminating in his role as managing director and global head of GS’s Principal Strategic Investments Group.

He was recently recognized as CEO of the Year at the 2022 Markets Choice Awards and included in the TabbFORUM 40 Top Innovators in Financial Markets list, highlighting Brad’s deep markets expertise and commitment to driving innovation and tackling inefficiencies in the industry. He had been previously recognized with the Markets Choice Neil DeSena Market Advocate Award for his dedication to driving change as a global leader in financial services.

Brad has served on numerous boards within the financial sector and is a sought-after advisor and speaker.

Johan Van Overtveldt (°1955) holds a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerp as well as an MBA from the University of Leuven.

Johan Van Overtveldt started his career as a journalist for Trends, Belgium’s leading business magazine in 1978. In 1982 he went on to pursue a career in business and finance. In the ensuing ten years he worked in banking, the manufacturing sector and the clothing industry. In 1992 he returned to Trends to become Editor in Chief. Subsequently he became an advisor for a construction firm as well as the General Director of an employers’ organisation before finally returning to Trends for a second time in 2010. From September 2011 until October 2012 he became Editor in Chief for Knack, a weekly news magazine. As from 2012 he has been a part time macro-economics professor at the University of Hasselt.

In 2013 Johan made the switch to the political world as he started as an economic advisor for the N-VA. After the elections in 2014, he took on the mandate of Federal Finance Minister in the Belgian government. After the European Elections of 2019 he was elected as a Member of the European Parliament. Currently, he is also Chair of the Budget Committee, Coordinator for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs in this Parliament and Co-Chair of the Recovery and Resilience Facility Woking Group.

In 2023 Johan was ranked as the 7th most influential member of Parliament according to the MEP Influence Index of Eumatrix.

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin MEP is a member of the Renew Europe Group and of the French political party Renaissance. She is the Renew coordinator in the Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON) Committee and substitute on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) Committee, on the Fisheries (PECH) Committee and the Taxation (FISC) Subcommittee.

Stéphanie is shadow rapporteur for the Renew Europe group on the review of the Solvency II rules for the insurance market. She is also rapporteur on the Retail Investment Strategy.

Her main commitments at European level are the establishment of fair competition rules that are favourable to innovation and business development, as well as the protection of the consumers in the digital world. She was rapporteur on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) for the ECON Committee.

Stéphanie is a former lawyer, admitted to the Paris Bar in 2004. Specialised in competition law, she worked in international law firms. Before that, she worked as a jurist for the European Commission. Between 2007 and 2011, she worked for the French Competition Authority as an international affairs adviser to president Bruno Lasserre.

She is a regional councillor in Normandy and was mayor of Saint-Contest in Calvados until 2019.

Paul Tang is a senior Member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Partij van de Arbeid (PvdA), as part of the Group of Socialists and Democrats (S&D). In 2014, Tang led the list of the PvdA for the European elections. In 2019 he was re-elected.

Paul Tang’s main priorities involve the fight against tax evasion, digital taxation, sustainable finance and platform regulation.

Since September 2020, Tang is chair of the subcommittee on taxation (FISC). Next to that, Tang is one of the co-founders of the Tracking-free Ads Coalition within the European Parliament.

Previously, Paul Tang was a Member of the Dutch Parliament. Here, Paul Tang was spokesperson for financial and fiscal affairs from 2007 until 2010, right through the financial crisis. Prior to that, he worked for the Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs and the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis.

Paul Tang received a PhD degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam