Rodrigo Buenaventura

Rodrigo Buenaventura took over as Secretary General in January 2025. He served four years as Chair of the Spanish financial markets regulator, CNMV, until December 2024, and as such was a member of the ESMA and IOSCO boards. Rodrigo chaired several policy committees within ESMA (Investor Protection, Market Integrity and Markets) and IOSCO (Sustainable Finance Tark Force). Previously, he developed a career in financial markets regulation and supervision, starting at CNMV in 2005 as Head of International and then Secondary Markets, joining the then newly created ESMA as its first Head of Markets (2011 to 2017) and then back at CNMV as Director General for Markets until 2020. He specialized in post-trading, market abuse supervision, corporate reporting, market structure and corporate governance. After graduating in Economics in Madrid, he spent the first eleven years of his career (1993-2004) in the private sector as a financial consultant at a leading Spanish consulting company (AFI). First as a fixed income and monetary policy analyst, then as partner of the firm and member of the executive committee, focusing on asset and liability management, securities issuance, debt management, rating advice and public finance.