Expert - CEO Office, Capital Markets Authority
Anita is an Expert in the CEO’s Office of the Capital Markets Authority of the UAE. Prior to that she worked as an Associate Director Policy & Legal at the DFSA, DIFC. In her regulatory policy and strategy career she led projects on investment funds & asset management, recovery and resolution, Basel III, capital markets, digital assets, market infrastructures, benchmarks, client assets, derivatives and netting. Since 2019, she is a member of the UAE Sustainable Finance Working Group.
Prior to that, Anita worked at the European Commission as Advisor to Commissioner Michel Barnier on a package of financial reforms following the GFC. She also worked as technical expert at the Commission’s DG FISMA on financial market infrastructures and derivatives reforms, CSD reforms, financial collateral and SFTs (repo and securities lending). She represented the Commission at the FSB Shadow Banking Taskforce, IOSCO WG on Client Assets and the ECB working group on SFTs and collateral. She also worked at BNP Paribas CIB and SJ Berwin in London.
Ms Wieja-Caruba qualified as a solicitor with SJ Berwin in 2010. She is a graduate of BPP Law School, University of Cambridge, Harvard Law School, College of Europe and University of Silesia.