Chair, IOSCO
Jean-Paul Servais is the Chairman of IOSCO Board. He is also the Chairman of the IOSCO European Regional Committee, Chair of the IFRS Foundation Monitoring Board, and co-Chair of the Monitoring Group in charge of the public governance of the audit standard setting at international level.
Mr Servais is the Chairman of the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) and a board member of several international supervisory bodies for the financial sector such as IOSCO, ESMA and ESRB. He sits on a number of supervisory colleges that coordinate the (cross-border) supervision of several financial institutions and infrastructures.
He teaches at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB, University of Brussels), where he is part-time professor in International Business Law and in the specialized Master in Tax Law. He is author or co-author of more than 400 contributions, mostly in areas of relevance to the European and international systems of financial supervision, to the FSMA's activities, and to the academic and scientific activities undertaken at the ULB.