ESMA Chair Verena Ross to step down at the end of her current term

About ESMA
10/12/2025

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, today announces that its Chair, Verena Ross, has decided to not renew her term as Chair for a second mandate.

She will remain fully committed to ESMA and continue her work as ESMA’s Chair until the end of her contract on 31 October 2026.

ESMA will now launch the process for selecting a new Chair.

 

Further information:

Solveig Kleiveland

Team Leader - Communications
press@esma.europa.eu

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