Veerle De Schryver (Past Speaker)

In 1990 Veerle De Schryver joined the Belgian financial regulator, the Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA). Since 2011 she is the Head of the Department which is responsible for the Transversal supervision of financial products, such as funds, banking products and insurance products (life and non-life). In the period 1990-2003 she worked for the Supervision of Financial Information and Markets for Financial Instruments Department, where she dealt mostly with public offerings of securities, legal questions concerning collective investment schemes and takeover bids. As a member of the Legal Department (2003-2011) she provided in-house legal advice in the field of securities law (in particular takeover law and the legislation on collective investments schemes) and company law. In the period 2008-2011 she was a Press Officer.