Rodrigo Buenaventura became Secretary General of IOSCO in January 2025. Prior to this, he served four years as Chair of the Spanish financial markets regulator, CNMV, until December 2024, and was a member of the ESMA and IOSCO boards. He chaired several policy committees within ESMA, including those on Investor Protection, Market Integrity, and Markets, and the Sustainable Finance Task Force at IOSCO. Rodrigo’s career in financial markets regulation and supervision began at CNMV in 2005, where he worked in roles such as Head of International and Secondary Markets. He was also the first Head of Markets at ESMA from 2011 to 2017 and later returned to CNMV as Director General for Markets until 2020.
Before his regulatory career, Rodrigo worked for 11 years in the private sector at the Spanish financial consulting firm AFI. He holds a degree in Economics in Madrid.

Rita is the author of “Web3 in Financial Services” Book. She also serves on the Advisory Board of a range of startups in the fields of DeFi, blockchain, digital assets and crypto at the intersection with finance.
Previously, Rita held the pivotal role of Global Head of FinTech Partnerships at HSBC, where she played a key role in incubating and accelerating disruptive technologies, carving significant advancements in the FinTech landscape. Her extensive background also includes strategy and digital transformation roles at Accenture and Ernst & Young, where she led large-scale digital transformation projects, helping clients achieve strategic milestones.

Mr. Carlos San Basilio is the current Chair of the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), a position which he holds since December 2024. Mr. San Basilio held the position as the Director of Corporate Strategy of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) between 2021 and 2024. Prior to that, he was the Secretary General of Treasury and International Financing (2018-2021), time during which he also served as a Board member of the Bank of Spain, the Spanish Resolution Authority (FROB) and the CNMV itself. His knowledge and experience in finance and domestic and foreign financial markets are also a result of having held other prominent positions, such as General Director of the Treasury (2016-2018), Resolution Director of the FROB (2015-2016) and Financial Advisor for the European Union (2013-2015). He also led the Directorate-General of State Assets in 2012 and the Directorate-General of COFIDES between 2010 and 2012. Before then, between 2004 and 2010, he was Executive Director for Market for Treasury Securities (MTS).
He holds a bachelor degree in Economic and Business Science from Universidad Autónoma of Madrid (1988) and is a member of the High Corps of Spanish State Economists and Trade Experts since 1990. He also has a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University (1997).

Ignacio Santillán is the CEO of the Spanish Investors Compensation Scheme for investment firms (FOGAIN), and he is currently the Associate Members Observer at the EFDI Board. He has previously been head of the Financial Markets Group in Linklaters in Madrid, head of Legal and Vicesecretary to the Board of the Spanish clearing and settlement system, and legal advisor to the CNMV, the Spanish Securities Markets Supervisor.
He has also served as Capital Markets Expert for the IMF, is member of the Advisory Committee of the CNMV (the Spanish Securities Markets Supervisor) and has been member of the ESMA Securities and Markets Stakeholders Group for eight years.
He is Graduate in Law for the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a member of the Spanish Financial Analysts Association, and of the Spanish Bar Association.

Yoshio Okubo has been the Chairman of the Japan Investor Protection Fund (JIPF) since 2018. Throughout his career, he has focused on regulatory and trade issues in financial services. Prior to his role at JIPF, he worked at the Investment Trusts Association of Japan (2015-2018) and the Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA) (2008-2015), two key self-regulatory organizations in Japan’s capital market. While at the JSDA, he chaired the Self-Regulatory Organizations Consultative Committee (SROCC, now AMCC) of IOSCO from 2009 to 2012.
Additionally, he has experience working at the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan, the Ministry of Finance, and has served at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group, where he was the Executive Director for Japan from 2004 to 2006.

Mr. Jose María Fernández is the Director of International Affairs and Policy at Fondo de Garantía de Depósitos de Entidades de Crédito (FGD). During his time at the FGD, he promotes the presence of the Spanish DGS in international fora, which includes FGD active participation in the associations comprised of DGSs at European and global level. Thus, FGD is IADI member since 2019, where Jose María is an EXCO member and the Chair of the Policy Council Committee. At European level he is also Vice-chair in the European Forum of Deposit Insurers (EFDI), and coChair of the Task Force on Deposit Insurance (TFDGS), set up by the EBA to assist the European Commission in the implementation of the current Deposit Guarantee Directive (DGSD) and other matters relating to DGSs.
Prior to joining the FGD he held various positions in the public and private sectors. He began his career in 2000 at the Bank of Spain and joined the Banking Supervision Directorate in 2002. He holds a 5-year degree in Physics (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).

Hemant Sharma works as SIPC’s Deputy General Counsel. In addition to helping direct the legal department, he has been SIPC’s lead attorney in various SIPCinitiated proceedings and other matters including the liquidation of Lehman Brothers, Inc. Hemant supervises outside counsel and manages sophisticated claims and disputes. Along with handling various corporate legal issues, he speaks before investor groups, regulators, and brokerage firms and regularly interfaces with staff of the Senate, the White House personnel office, and several government agencies. He maintains primary responsibility for SIPC’s international legal affairs and chairs SIPC’s internal IT Working Group.
Prior to joining SIPC, Hemant was an Honors Program Trial Attorney with the US Department of Justice, Tax Division. He obtained his law degree from Columbia Law School earning recognition as a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar. Hemant graduated with honors from the University Honors Program at Texas A&M University.
He is a member of the bars of New York and California and admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for Second Circuit, and several U.S. District Courts.

Gabby Hart is the General Counsel and Company Secretary of Securities Exchanges Guarantee Corporation, trustee of the National Guarantee Fund. Gabby has over 20 years experience in the legal industry. Her background is in Corporate Law. She has worked as a lawyer in private practice and inhouse across a number of industries, including financial services.
Gabby has been General Counsel of SEGC since 2014. Since that time SEGC has separated from ASX Ltd to run independently and in 2018 SEGC admitted as a member of SEGC, the operator of a second financial market, Cboe Australia Pty Ltd (formerly Chi-X Pty Ltd). Gabby was instrumental seeking the regulatory changes that expanded the caps on claims on the National Guarantee Fund to ensure the sustainability of the NGF. She has led the organization through the insolvency of stockbroker BBY Limited where SEGC received around 600 claims.

Josephine Wang is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC). After graduating from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, she worked as an attorney at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a Federal Government Agency. In 1983, she joined SIPC as a staff attorney. Working on some of SIPC’s larger cases, she held various roles of increasing responsibility, becoming General Counsel in 2014 and President and CEO in 2019.
Ms. Wang is the co-author of a comprehensive article on stockbroker liquidations (12 Cardozo Law Review 509 (1990)), and the author of “On the Road to Recovery: Victims of the Madoff Fraud,” 8 International In-House Counsel Journal 3141 (Winter 2015). She has represented SIPC as a speaker at various events, including those organized by the American Bar Association, the Futures Industry Association, and the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation.

Ilana Singer is vice president legal, policy and corporate secretary of the Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF). She is Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission’s Investor Advisory Panel, a member of the Northwind Retail Investor and Disruptive Technologies Forum Steering Committees and has served as a multilingual Toronto Centre Program Leader since 2005. Ms. Singer also serves as a World Bank securities expert, with a focus on investor protection matters.
Prior to her role at CIPF, Ms. Singer served as Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Director at the Canadian Foundation for the Advancement of Investor Rights (FAIR Canada) and was an Adjunct Instructor for the Osgoode Hall Law School Investor Protection Seminar. She is past Chair of the Toronto Centre Securities Advisory Board, and was Senior Advisor, International Affairs at the OSC. Ms. Singer began her career as a corporate and securities lawyer at McMillan LLP in Toronto, Canada.
Ms. Singer holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen’s University. She is also a graduate of the Securities Industry Institute (SII) offered by Wharton Executive Education in partnership with SIFMA.

Alan joined the Irish Investor Compensation Company (ICCL) in 2006 having trained with Deloitte in Dublin, Ireland. He has held various roles at the ICCL and is currently the Funding and Policy Manager. He has worked on small and medium sized investment firm failures during his tenure with ICCL.
He currently chairs the ICS working group at EFDI having previously represented ICS members at EFDI as the Associate Member Observer of the Board between 2017 and 2023.

Jonathan is the Head of Public Affairs and International Liaison for the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (UK). He is responsible for external affairs and liaison with international counterparts and safety net players – including the resolution and supervisory authorities and the UK’s Finance Ministry.
He previously worked in regulatory affairs at the World Federation of Exchanges – the global body for stock exchanges and clearing houses. Prior to joining the World Federation of Exchanges, he held senior roles with the City of London Corporation, the governing body for London’s financial district, leading teams on policy engagement and advocacy for the City of London with the European Union institutions and the 27 Member States. He was later appointed the City’s Senior Policy Adviser for international markets. Prior to this, he worked in the private office of the Lord Mayor of London and in the City’s Parliamentary affairs department.