Mairead McGuinness is the European Commissioner for financial services, financial stability and Capital Markets Union. The Commissioner’s vision for the portfolio is focused on ensuring the financial sector’s strength and stability, so that it can deliver for people, society and the environment.

Before joining the Commission in October 2020, Ms McGuinness was First Vice-President of the European Parliament from 2017. She served as an MEP from Ireland for 16 years and was a Vice-President of the Parliament since 2014.

During her time in the Parliament, Ms McGuinness sat on a range of committees, covering agriculture, environment, public health, budgets, petitions and constitutional affairs. Her legislative work included leading for the EPP Group on the European Climate Law, the revision of medical devices legislation, and CAP reform post-2013. As an Irish MEP representing the border region, she was outspoken on Brexit and the consequences for the EU and Ireland.

In 2006-2007, Ms McGuinness chaired the Parliament’s investigation into the collapse of the Equitable Life assurance company which identified issues around weak financial regulation.

Prior to becoming an MEP, she was an award-winning journalist, broadcaster and commentator.

Anneli Tuominen is the Director General of the Financial Supervisory Authority in Finland (FIN-FSA). She has served as Director General since February 2007.  She joined the FIN-FSA in 1996 and acted first as Deputy Director General in charge of the Capital Markets Department. Ms Tuominen is also the Vice-Chair of ESMA.

Ms Tuominen is a voting member of the Supervisory Board of the ECB.  She is also a voting member in the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority and a non-voting member in the European Systemic Risk Board. In Finland she is a board member of the Finnish Financial Ombudsman Bureau.

Previously she chaired the Financial Innovation Standing Committee of ESMA for two terms (ended September 2015). She also chaired the Consumer Protection and Financial Innovation Sub-Committee of the Joint Committee (ended April 2016).

Ms Tuominen holds a master’s degree in law (trained on the bench) and is also a bachelor of economic sciences.

Danuta Huebner, Polish economist and politician, has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009. In July 2019, she became a member of the Committee on International Trade, and the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and she is the Coordinator of the Group of the European People's Party in the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.

Ms Huebner was member of the Brexit Steering Group (2017-2020). Since July 2020, she is the Chair of the Monitoring Group on the implementation of the Withdrawal Agreement of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs.

She was the first Polish Member of the European Commission (2004-2009), responsible first for Trade and then for Regional Policy. She was the Chair of the Committee on Regional Policy (2009-2014) and the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (2014-2019).

In 2000-2001, Ms Huebner became executive secretary of United Nations Economic Commission for Europe.

David Wright is the Chair of EUROFI, Paris, and a partner at FLINT-GLOBAL, London. Previously, he worked for 34 years in the European Commission and was appointed Secretary        General of the International Organization of Securities Commissions.

He was the EU Visiting Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford until July 2011 and was a Member of the European Commission's Task force on Greece until the end of January 2012.

From March 2000 – October 2010, Mr Wright was first Director, then Deputy Director-General for securities and financial markets, then for all financial services policy in DG Internal Market and Services, European Commission. He helped design and drive forward the Financial Services Action Plans to            integrate the EU's capital and financial services markets. He was the rapporteur for both the Lamfalussy (2000/1) and De LaRosière Committees (2008/9), chaired the Securities and Banking Committees and represented the Commission in the Financial Services Committee and in various FSB/G20 fora. He also played a leading role in the EU-US financial markets          dialogue in this period.

Robert Ophèle the Chair of the Autorité des marchés financiers. After graduating from the ESSEC business school, he joined Banque de France in 1981 where he spent a major part of his professional career in banking supervision, developing and implementing monetary policy and financial management.

Following a secondment to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he took up the position of Director of the Management Control and Budget Directorate, then was appointed Deputy Director General Economics and International Relations, before being promoted Director General Operations. He held the position of Second Deputy Governor of Banque de France from January 2012 until July 2017. In this role, he also became a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank.

Guillaume Prache is the Managing Director of BETTER FINANCE, the European Federation of Investors and Financial Services Users. He is also one of the experts representing financial services users at the European Commission (lately as member of the High Level Forum on the CMU), at ESMA (Securities & Markets Stakeholder Group), at EIOPA (Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group), and at the French financial regulator AMF.  He has been the first chair of the ESMA Stakeholder Group, and former vice chair of the European Commission’s Financial Services User Group and member of the EIOPA Pensions and EBA Banking Stakeholder Groups.

He started as a magistrate at the French Court of Auditors, and has an extended and international experience in financial matters, most recently as Chief Financial Officer of Rhône-Poulenc Rorer, Inc., a “Fortune 500” publicly-listed pharmaceutical company (today Sanofi) from 1997 to 2000, and then as Managing Director of the European affiliate of the Vanguard Group, Inc., a global leader in asset management, from 2000 to 2006.

Niamh Moloney is Professor of Financial Markets Law and Head of the Law Department at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Niamh specialises in EU financial market regulation and wrote the first monograph on this topic (EU Securities and Financial Markets Regulation, 3rd edition, Oxford University Press, 2014). Her other books include a work on ESMA: The Age of ESMA. Governing EU Financial Markets (Hart Publishing, 2018). Ms Moloney is a member of the Joint Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities and was previously a member of the inaugural and second Securities and Markets Stakeholder Groups of ESMA.

Steven Maijoor has been the Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) since taking up office 1 April 2011. He is responsible for representing the Authority as well as chairing ESMA’s Board of Supervisors and the Management Board. 

Prior to taking up this role, Steven was Managing Director at the AFM, the Dutch financial markets regulator, where he was responsible for capital market supervision, including financial reporting and auditing, prospectuses, public offerings, and the supervision of the integrity of financial markets. During his term, the scope of activities of the AFM vastly expanded and he was responsible for building and implementing supervision in the capital market area. In his regulatory role at the AFM, Steven has held a number of international positions, including the Chairmanship of the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators.

Before joining the regulatory world, Steven was the Dean of the School of Business and Economics at Maastricht University, and had pursued a long career in academia which included a variety of positions at Maastricht University and the University of Southern California.

Chris Burns is a Franco-American journalist and media expert with more than 30 years' reporting experience in Europe, the U.S., Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. He's covered armed conflicts, election battles, financial crises, natural and human disasters as well as film festivals. For Euronews he’s been globetrotting to shoot magazine shows and was host of the hard talk show “The Network”.

He was a Bloomberg TV reporter based in Brussels and Berlin, and a CNN correspondent based in Germany and the White House. He reported for the Associated Press from Paris, New York and Nashville. He's also a media consultant, media trainer and video producer, and has moderated panels including for the World Economic Forum, OECD, OSCE, United Nations, World Bank and EU institutions. He graduated in political economy at the University of California, Berkeley, and did post-grad studies in Europe. Chris speaks five languages and has dual US-French nationality.