Dr. Ignazio Angeloni has been Member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank since March 2014. Since February 2017 he is also a non-voting member of the Single Resolution Board. He started his career at the Bank of Italy. In 1998 he moved to the ECB

as Deputy Director General of Research. In 2005 Ignazio Angeloni joined Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance as Director for International Financial Affairs. In 2008 he moved back to the ECB as Advisor to the Executive Board, and then became Director General for Macro-Prudential Policy and Financial Stability. In this position he coordinated the ECB's preparation for the Single Supervisory Mechanism.

Denis Beau has been Deputy Governor of the Banque de France since August 2017. He has also been appointed by the Governor to represent him as Chairman of the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority. He is a member of the college of

the French Financial Markets Authority, of the Supervisory Board of the Caisse des Dépôts, and of the Supervisory Board for the ECB’s Single Supervisory Mechanism. Denis Beau has also been member of various European and international committees dealing with monetary policy, financial stability and the prudential regulation of banks.

Dr. Lorenzo Bini Smaghi is Chairman of Societé Générale. He is also Chairman of Italgas, Visiting Scholar at Harvard‘s Weather-head Center for International Affairs, and Senior Fellow at LUISS School of European Political Economy. From 2005 to 2011 he has

been a Member of the Executive Board of the ECB. Lorenzo Bini Smaghi started his career at the Bank of Italia. In 1994 he moved to the European Monetary Institute to head the Policy Division, to prepare for the creation of the ECB. In 1998 he became Director General for International Affairs in the Italian Treasury, acting as G7 and G20 Deputy and Vice President of the EU Economic and Financial Committee.

Andrea Enria is the first Chairperson of the European Banking Authority. He took up office in 2011 and is responsible for preparing the work of the Board of Supervisors and chairs its meetings as well as those of the Management Board. Before, Andrea Enria

was the Head of the Regulation and Supervisory Policy Department at the Bank of Italy. He had previously served as Secretary General of the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (EBA‘s predecessor). In the past, he also held the position of Head of the Financial Supervision Division at the European Central Bank.

Prof. José Manuel González-Páramo is Executive Board Director of BBVA. Among other responsibilities, he is the Chief Officer, Global Economics, Regulation and Public Affairs, and the Chairman of its International Advisory Board. In 1988 he was appointed

Professor of Economics at UCM, and since 2012 he has been professor at IESE Business School. José González-Páramo was member of the Executive Board of the ECB from 2004 to 2012. Before, he was a member of the Governing Council of the Bank of Spain and of its Executive Committee, and an economic adviser to various institutions.

Rebekah Goshorn Jurata is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Financial Stability and Regulation at the U.S. Department of Treasury. Prior to joining the Department of Treasury, she served as the Senior Securities Counsel for the U.S. House

of Representatives Financial Services Committee. Rebekah Goshorn Jurata was previously Counsel to Commissioner Daniel M. Gallagher of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and a Counsel in the Division of Trading and Markets at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Additionally, she was a Senior Associate at an international law firm in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Beverly Hirtle is Executive Vice President, Head of the Research and Statistics Group and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She worked extensively on issues relating to bank capital adequacy and supervisory stress testing –

including work on the Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, the Dodd-Frank Act stress tests, and the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review – and on calibration of regulatory capital requirements. Her research also includes work on disclosure and risk management, and the impact of derivatives on bank risk and credit supply.

Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm is Research and Advocacy Coordinator for Eurozone Governance at Transparency International EU. He joined TI EU in 2015 to coordinate the programme on transparency and democratic accountability of EU economic governance

institutions. Prior, he worked at the European Commission‘s Joint Research Centre and in the DG‘s team at DG Ecfin. Before entering EU affairs, he had a stint as disarmament attaché for the pacific island of Nauru at the UN in New York, and he worked as co-founder of the international campaign to abolish nuclear weapons in Germany.

Dr. Levin Holle is Director General of the Financial Markets Policy Department of Germany's Federal Ministry of Finance. His responsibilities include the formulation of policies and strategies with respect to federal credit institutions, federal debt management,

financial markets as well as international financial markets policy. He is also responsible for the supervision of the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority and the Financial Market Stabilisation Authority. Prior to joining the German Finance Ministry, Levin Holle worked 15 years for the Boston Consulting Group.

Dr. Elke König is Chair of the Single Resolution Board. The General Counsel, the Policy Coordination and International Relations Unit, the Communications office and the Internal Audit function report directly to her. She was President of the German Federal Financial

Supervisory Authority from 2012 until 2015. Elke König spent many years working in the financial and insurance sector. She has been with KPMG Deutsche Treuhandgesellschaft and Munich Re, before moving to Hannover Rückversicherung as CFO. Elke König was also a representative of the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. She is Chair of the Resolution Steering Group of the Financial Stability Board.

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Dr. Matthias Kollatz-Ahnen has been Senator for Finance of Berlin since December 2014. Prior to this, he was, inter alia, member of the Executive Board of the European Investment Bank from 2006 to 2012 and the Investitions-bank Hessen from 2000 to 2006 respectively.

Matthias Kollatz-Ahnen also has experience in the private sector, as he was Senior Advisor on Finance and Regulation at PwC from 2012 to 2014.

Philippe Lamberts has been Member of the European Parliament since 2009. In May 2014, he was appointed Co-President of the Greens/EFA political group in the European Parliament. As MEP, he focuses on economic and financial questions, and has become a

specialist on fiscal, banking and macroeconomic issues. His political career started in 1991 within the Belgian green party Ecolo, where he served both at the local and federal levels. In 1999, he became a member of the Council of the European Federation of Green Parties. He was then elected to the executive Committee in 2003 before becoming co-chair of what had become the European Green Party.

Dr. Vincenzo La Via is Director General of the Italian Treasury. He is the deputy Minister of the Economy and Finance at the G7, G20, and the International Financial and Monetary Committee. He is vice-chairman of the Financial and Economic Committee of the EU,

chairman of the Financial Services Committee of the EU, chairman of the Control and Risk-Management Committees of the European Stability Mechanism and the European Financial Stability Facility. Vincenzo La Via is member of the board of directors of the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti. In prior positions he was Managing Director and CFO for the World Bank in Washington, and CFO for Banca Intesa.

Francesco Mazzaferro has been the Head of the Secretariat of the European Systemic Risk Board since January 2011. Following legal studies, he began his career in the field of financial market analysis at the Istituto Bancario San Paolo di Torino in Turin in 1987.

He joined the European Commission in Brussels in 1992, starting his international career in the DG 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, Francesco Mazzaferro joined the European Monetary Institute – which later became the European Central Bank – as the Officer of Policy Planning. In 1998, he became Senior European Relations Officer.

Prof. Alessandro Penati is Chairman and Founding Partner of the independent asset management company Quaestio Capital Management. Previously he was Chairman and Founding partner of Epsilon Associati. Alessandro Penati has been Professor of

Finance at Catholic University in Milan. Before, he was professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, as well as at Bocconi University and University of Padua. He has been an economist in the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund, and a consultant to the OECD. He has been on the Editorial Board of the daily newspapers La Repubblica, Corriere della Sera and Sole-24 Ore.

Richard Portes is Professor of Economics at London Business School. He is Founder and Honorary President of the Centre for Econo-mic Policy Research, inaugural holder of the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair at the Euro-pean University Institute, and Co-Founder and

Co-Chair of the Board of Economic Policy. He is Chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee to the European Systemic Risk Board, of the Steering Committee of the Euro50 Group, and of the Bellagio Group on the International Economy. Richard Portes was a Rhodes Scholar and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and has taught at Princeton and Birkbeck College, University of London.

Klaus Regling is the current and first Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism. He is also CEO of the European Financial Stability Facility. Klaus Regling has worked for 40 years as an economist in senior positions, including a decade with the

IMF and a decade with the German Ministry of Finance where he prepared Economic and Monetary Union in Europe. From 2001 to 2008, he was Director General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commis-sion. Previously, Klaus Regling first gained experience as Managing Director of the Moore Capital Strategy Group and as an economist with the German Bankers’ Association.

Odile Renaud-Basso has been Director General of the Treasury at the French Ministry for Economy and Finance since June 2016. Before, she has been Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Caisse des Dépôts and Director of Savings Funds. Odile Renaud-Basso enjoyed

a long career in the Treasury administration and in other functions. From 2012 to 2013 she has been acting as Deputy Director of the Office of the Prime Minister. Prior, she served as the Deputy Head of Cabinet of the President of the European Council of the Office of the European Commis-sion's President. Before that, she has been Director at the DG Ecfin of the European Commission.

Dr. Sven Schelo is a Partner at Linklaters in Frankfurt and has specialised experience in restructuring, finance and regulatory matters. As such he has advised on many of the largest European bank restructuring situations since 2007. He was a member of an expert

commission, the ILEG, advising the European Commission on bank restructuring topics, and he is a member of the curatorium of the Centre for Restructuring at the University of Mannheim.

Dr. Ludger Schuknecht is Chief Economist and heading the Directorate General Fiscal Policy and International Financial and Monetary Policy at the German Ministry of Finance. In this role he advises the Minister on economic policy issues in the domestic and

international sphere. In his previous position of Senior Advisor in the DG Economics of the European Central Bank he contributed to the preparation of monetary policy decision making and the ECB positions in European policy coordination. Before that, he headed the ECB’s fiscal surveil-lance section which followed assignments at the World Trade Organisation and at the International Monetary Fund.

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Prof. Helmut Siekmann holds the Chair for Money, Currency and Central Bank Law at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt, and serves as Director of the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability. His research is focused on all aspects of the European System of Central

Banks and government finances in Germany. He has also worked extensively on the institutional framework of the EU to secure fiscal stability, the mechanisms to stabilize financial institutions, and the supervision and control of financial markets. Helmut Siekmann has been visiting professor at several foreign universities, e.g. Saint Louis University School of Law, Université d‘Orléans, and Université Paris-Dauphine.

Luigi Federico Signorini has been Deputy Governor of the Banca d'Italia since 2013, and, in this capacity, is member of the Banca d'Italia's Governing Board and of the Board of the Italian insurance authority. He is also member of the Basel Committee, the Board

of the EBA, and other European and international bodies. Luigi Signorini joined the Banca d'Italia in 1982. From 1997 to 2008 he headed the Economic and Financial Statistics Department. In 2008 he moved to financial supervision, as head of regulation first, then of banking groups supervision, and finally as managing director for the supervision area.

Christian Stiefmüller is Senior Policy Adviser at Finance Watch. His principal research focus is on financial stability, in particular prudential regulation, resolution and financial safety nets. At Finance Watch he is respon-sible for policy research and analysis of the

banking sector. Previously a senior investment banker, Christian Stiefmueller has more than 20 years experience in the financial industry, working at a number of major global banks. Over the years, he has served as an adviser to public and private corporations and financial investors on a wide range of M&A, equity and debt capital markets transactions across a number of industries.

Emiliano Tornese is the Acting Head of the Resolution and Crisis Management Unit in the European Commission‘s DG Fisma. In that capacity, he has been involved with the preparation and negotiation of the BRRD, and with the preparation, negotiation and launch

of the Single Resolution Mechanism. He is now focusing on the implementation of the BRRD and the SRM Regulation, of the international principles concerning CCP Recovery and Resolution, and of the recommendations of the Five Presi-dents‘ Report on a European Deposit Insurance Scheme. Besides, Emiliano Tornese is currently visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges.

Matthias Wargers is a Member of the Mana-ging Board of the Erste Abwicklungsanstalt (EAA) and also serves as the Spokesman of the Board. He was appointed to the Board shortly after the EAA’s inception in spring 2010. Prior to joining, he headed the Group

Development and Participation unit of the Westdeutsche Landesbank AG. The trained economist looks back on more than 20 years of experience in banking and participation management. In this context he was responsible of various complex international transactions and projects.

Dr. Maria Demertzis is Deputy Director at Bruegel. She has previously worked at the European Commission and the research department of the Dutch Central Bank. She has also held academic positions at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in

the USA and the University of Strathclyde in the UK, from where she holds a PhD in economics. Maria Demertzis has published extensively in international academic journals and contributed regular policy inputs to both the European Commission‘s and the Dutch Central Bank‘s policy outlets.

Prof. Alessio M. Pacces holds the Chair of Law and Finance at the Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam. Before moving to academia, he was senior researcher in the Law and Economics Research Depart-ment of the Bank of Italy. Alessio Pacces has

published several books, chapters and peer-reviewed articles on the economic analysis of corporate law and financial regulation. He has been invited to speak by policy institutions such as the OECD, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission. He has held several visiting appointments, including among others at Berkeley Law School and Columbia Law School.

Dr. Andy Jobst is Adviser to the Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of the World Bank Group. Previously he was Senior Economist in the European Department of the International Monetary Fund. Until 2014, he spent almost three years as Chief Economist

and Deputy Director of the Bermuda Monetary Authority. Before, Andy Jobst was an economist at the IMF, where he served as one of the main authors of the Global Financial Stability Report and led the stress testing exercises as part of the financial sector assessment program. He also worked at other institutions such as the ECB and Deutsche Bank.

Prof. Jörg Rocholl is President of ESMT Berlin and member of the economic advisory board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance. He is also the vice chairman of the economic advisory board of Deutsche Welle, research professor at the Ifo Institute and Duisenberg

fellow of the European Central Bank. After completing his PhD at Columbia University in New York, Jörg Rocholl was named an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has researched and taught at ESMT since 2007 and was appointed president of ESMT in 2011. Since 2010 he has held the EY Chair in Governance and Compliance.

Xavier Vives is Professor of Economics and Finance at IESE Business School. He is President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics and research Fellow of CESifo as well as of the Center for Economic Policy Research. He has

taught at Insead, Harvard University, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University. Xavier Vives has been an advisor and consultant on competition and regulation issues inter alia for the World Bank, the European Commission and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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