Lucian Bercea is a Professor of Commercial Law and Banking Law at the West University of Timișoara, Faculty of Law (since 1997). Dean of this faculty (since 2012). Founding member of the Centre for Business Law Timișoara (West University of Timișoara) and of the Centre for Natural Law Studies and Normative Analysis (University of Bucharest). Guest professor at the University of Udine (Italy) and the University of Pécs (Hungary). Coordinator of joint doctoral projects with University of Torino (Italy) and University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France). Member of the Scientific Committee of the European Society for Banking and Financial Law (AEDBF). Member of the editorial boards of the European Company Case Law (ECCL), Romanian Journal of Private Law, and Romanian Journal of Business Law. National rapporteur at congresses of international scientific societies (International Academy of Comparative Law, Association Henri Capitant). Appointed as general rapporteur of a section of the next General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (Berlin, Germany, 2026).

Chair of the think tank AEFR (Association Europe-Finances-Regulations)

Member of the Audit Committee of the Ethic Committee of ECB

Member of the AMF committee on climate and sustainable finance,

Member of the board of directors of Fondation Jean Jaurès, Confrontations and WIL (Woman in leadership).

Chair of the orchestra Les Forces majeures

Member of the European Parliament between 1994 and 2019. She was three times Chair of the French socialist delegation. She chaired the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (2004-2009) and Employment and social affairs (2009-2014).

She has been member of the European Conventions in charge of elaborating a Charter of fundamental rights (2000) and of a Constitution (2002-2003), and rapporteur for the Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2010-2011).

S&D coordinator for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (2016-2019). In particular, she was rapporteur in 2015 on the review of the economic governance framework: assessment and challenges, in 2017 on the budgetary capacity of the euro zone, in 2018 on the creation of a European investment stabilization mechanism and on the revision European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs).

Administrator of the French National Assembly, from 1988 to 1992, she was technical adviser on international and European affairs in the office of the Speaker of the National Assembly. Between 2001 and 2008 she was Member of Sèvres Municipal Council.

Michal Bobek is president of chamber at the Supreme Administrative Court, Czech Republic, and Visiting Professor at the Institute of European, International and Comparative Law, University of Vienna Law Faculty. He has taught in numerous universities in Europe and overseas, including Oxford, College of Europe in Bruges, Prague, or Toronto, as well as (co)authored dozens of books and over a hundred academic articles in areas of EU law, ECHR law, constitutional law, comparative (public) law, and legal theory and history, published in English, Czech, French and German. From 2015 to 2021, he also served as Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union.

Agrégé des facultés de droit, Professeur de droit privé, Directeur du LLM de Droit bancaire et financier, ancien-vice-président de l’Université en charge de la recherche, Thierry Bonneau enseigne le droit bancaire, le droit des marchés financiers, la régulation bancaire et financière européenne et internationale. Il donne des cours et conférences, en français et en anglais, notamment au Liban, à Dubai, au Luxembourg, à Singapour, au Canada, aux États-Unis, en Colombie et à l’Ile Maurice.

Auteur ou co-auteur de plusieurs ouvrages [Régulation bancaire et financière européenne et internationale (Bruylant 7° éd. 2024) Droit bancaire (LGDJ 15° éd. 2023 et 16° éd. 2025), Droit financier (en collaboration, LGDJ 4° éd. 2023 et 5° éd. 2025), Fintech et droit (en collaboration, Banque édition 2° éd. 2020), Droit des marchés financiers (en collaboration, Economica 3° éd. 2010), Les offres publiques (en collaboration, EFE, 1999), il est membre du conseil scientifique ou éditorial de plusieurs revues (Banque et droit, Bulletin Joly bourse, Revue trimestrielle de droit financier), codirige la Revue de droit bancaire et financier et est le président du conseil scientifique de la Revue internationale de services financiers. Il codirige une chronique de droit financier est est co-auteur d’une chronique de droit bancaire et a écrit nombre d’articles concernant notamment l’intelligence artificielle, les crypto-actifs et l’euro numérique.

Ancien membre de la Commission épargnant de l’AMF (Autorité des marchés financiers) et membre du conseil d’administration de l’AEDBF (Association européenne de droit bancaire et financier) et de plusieurs groupes de travail, il a présidé le groupe de travail Brexit secteur bancaire du Haut Comité Juridique de la Place de Paris. Il a également une activité de consultant et arbitre en droit des affaires (droit des sociétés, droit des contrats, droit bancaire, marchés financiers).

François Boucard est docteur en droit et a soutenu une thèse en droit bancaire.

Il est avocat au Conseil d’Etat et à la Cour de cassation, associé au sein du cabinet Boucard-Capron-Maman. En cette qualité, il intervient aussi bien devant les cours suprêmes nationales (Cour de cassation, conseil d’Etat et Conseil constitutionnel) qu’européennes (CJUE et CEDH). Le droit bancaire et financier constitue l’une des activités dominantes du cabinet.

Par ailleurs, François Boucard enseigne le droit bancaire européen à l’Université de Strasbourg. Il est administrateur de l’AEDBF France et partenaire de l’ANJB.

Amélie Champsaur is a lawyer at the Paris Bar and partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

Amélie leads the firm’s EU financial regulatory practice and is active in the fast developing area of EU-level financial regulation, advising EU and non-EU banks, infrastructures, sovereigns, investment funds, and other market participants on a broad range of matters, including prudential regulation, governance and compliance (including cyber-security), bank resolution, state aid in the financial sector, and derivatives regulation, in the context of M&A, capital markets transactions, emerging risks, ESG, as well as enforcement and litigation.

She has also advised clients on the cross-border aspects of U.S. regulatory reforms, enforcement, and litigation matters, including on privacy matters.

Amélie joined the firm in 2003 and became a partner in 2012. She was a resident in the New York office from 2005 to 2006.

Amélie is an Expert Member of the Haut Comité Juridique de Place, a high-level French government advisory committee on market infrastructures (since 2024) and Fellow of the Salzburg Global Forum on Finance and the Harvard Symposium on EU/US Financial Regulation.

Pierre-Henri Conac is a a Professor of Financial Markets Law at the University of Luxembourg, where he founded the Master 2 in European Banking and Financial Law. He is also a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.

From 1999 to 2006, he was Associate Professor of Law at the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He graduated from the University of Paris 1 in business law (1991), from HEC School of Management (1990) and from the Institute of Political Studies of Paris (1994). He also earned an LL.M. from Columbia Law School (1995).

Pierre-Henri Conac is the author of ‘The regulation of securities markets by the French Commission des opérations de bourse (COB) and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’ which was awarded several prizes. His research areas deal principally with securities and company law, at national and EU level, as well as comparative law in these fields, especially with the United States. He has written numerous articles on corporate, securities and comparative law, in French, English, German and Spanish and co-edited several books with national and international publishers.

He has been member of several working groups in these areas at the EU and national level in financial markets law and company law. From 2011 to 2016 the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), appointed him twice to its consultative Securities and Markets Stakeholder Group (SMSG). He participates regularly at conferences and seminars on those topics in Europe and internationally. He speaks fluently French and English, correctly German and Spanish, and has a good knowledge of Luxemburgish.

Pierre-Henri Conac is managing editor of the Revue des Sociétés (Dalloz), France’s oldest corporate law review, co-chief managing editor of the European Company and Financial Law Review (ECFR, de Gruyter) and Scientific Director of the Luxembourg Revue Pratique de Droit des Affaires (Legitech).

Gabriel Cumenge is Deputy Director of banks and general interest financing, Economic financing Department, Treasury Directorate General.

Elisabeth Delahousse initiated and led the work of the ad hoc working group behind the Less is More report, with the support, in particular, of Professors Blanche Sousi and Anne-Claire Rouaud. She is Head of European Affairs at the Fédération Nationale de Crédit Agricole (FNCA), having previously worked in the Legal Departments of Crédit Agricole SA and Société Générale.

Elisabeth Delahousse is a member of the Board of Directors of AEDBF/ESBFL France.

Après un parcours au sein de la Banque de France pour le Comité des établissements de crédit  le Comité de la réglementation bancaire puis la Commission bancaire, Édouard Fernandez-Bollo a été  de 2014 à 2019 Secrétaire général de l’Autorité de contrôle prudentiel en France puis de 2019 à 2024 représentant de la Banque centrale européenne auprès de son Conseil de surveillance prudentielle (Supervisory Board) où il a suivi  en particulier les questions relatives à l’intégration du marché bancaire européen, mais également des diverses composantes du Mécanisme de Supervision Unique.

Depuis octobre 2024 il est membre du Conseil de révision administrative (Administrative Board of review- ABoR) chargé de réexaminer les décisions de la BCE lorsqu’un établissement soumis à sa surveillance prudentielle en fait le demande. Il a rejoint en juin 2025 le Comité d’Audit de la Banque Européenne d’Investissement, en charge notamment d’observer l’application par la BEI des meilleures pratiques bancaires.

Roberto Ferretti is a lawyer and an adjunct professor of Business and Digital Law at the Università Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Italy.He is one of the Vice-presidents and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Association Européenne pour le Droit Bancaire et Financier (AEDBF). He is also a member of the European Law Institute.

He formerly served as a member of the Adjudication Panel of the Italian Banking Ombudsman (ABF).

I am currently a Professor of European Law at the University of Salzburg, where I am also a Deputy-Director of the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) and the Principal Investigator of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence EUCHALLENGES and of the Jubilaümsfonds Project EUSOFTLAW. I was previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at Sciences Po Paris (Law School, IMPACTEBU Project), an Assistant Professor of European Law at Maastricht University and at Utrecht University, and a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow in Law at the European University Institute of Florence, Italy. My research focuses on the Economic and Monetary Union and especially the Banking Union, as well as on Parliaments in the EU. Generally, EU Institutional matters and Comparative constitutional law are of my interest.

(1) Christos Gortsos is Professor of Public Economic Law at the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). He studied, at undergraduate and graduate level, law, economics, finance, as well as international history and politics at the NKUA and the Universities of Zürich, Pennsylvania (Wharton Business School) and Geneva (Graduate Institute of International Studies), where he also obtained his PhD degree in international banking regulation.

(2) His main research interests are international and EU monetary and financial law, banking regulation and supervision, bank crisis management, central banking law, economic constitutional law, and institutional economics. His most recent books are titled: 

“The European Banking Regulation Handbook, Volume I: Theory of Banking Regulation, International Standards, Evolution and Institutional Aspects of EU Banking Law” (2023, Palgrave Macmillan), and 

“The Eurosystem at 25 (1999-2023):Legal Aspects of the Single Monetary Policy in the Euro Area – From  the Establishment of the Eurosystem to the Current Inflation Crisis” (2024, University of Zürich, EIZ Publishing). 

Volume II of the above European Banking Regulation Handbookon “Substantive Aspects of European Banking Regulation” is forthcoming in the first half of 2025. 

(3) Currently, and inter alia, he is also:

President of the Academic Board of the European Banking Institute (EBI);

Member of the Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs);

Member of the European Parliament’s and of the European Court of Auditors’ expert groups on banking resolution; 

Academic Director of the EBI LLM Program in “EU Banking and Financial Regulation”, jointly offered by the EBI and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management; and 

Visiting Professor at the Europa Institute of the University of Saarland, the  Europa Institute of the University of Zürich and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.  

(4) Inter alia as well, during the winter semester of the Academic Year 2017-2018 he was a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the Law Department of the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, during the winter semester of the Academic Year 2018-2019, Academic Visitor at St Antony’s College (Oxford University), affiliated to the Political Economy of Financial Markets Research Center and,  during the winter semester of the Academic Year 2023-2024, Visiting Professor at the University of Zürich. 

For the summer semester of the current Academic Year, he is invited as Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zürich. His Research Project is titled: “Aspects of the reform of Swiss banking regulation in the wake of the Credit Suisse episode”. 

Karel Lannoo has been Chief Executive of CEPS since 2000, Europe’s leading independent European think tank, ranked among the top ten think tanks in the world. He manages a staff of 80 people.

Karel was an Independent Director of BME (Bolsas y Mercados Españolas), the listed company that manages the Spanish securities markets (2006-18).

He published several books on capital markets, MiFID, and the financial crisis. He is the author of many op-eds and articles published by CEPS or in international newspapers and reviews. Karel is a regular speaker in hearings for national and international institutions (the European Commission, European Parliament, etc.) and at international gatherings.

Karel Lannoo holds a baccalaureate in Philosophy (1984) and an MA in Modern History (1985) from the University of Leuven, Belgium, and obtained a postgraduate diploma in European studies (Centre d’Etudes européennes, CEE) from the University of Nancy, France (1986).

Professeur Dr. Matthias Lehmann, est professeur à l’Université de Vienne et à l’Université Radboud de Nimègue. Il a été formé aux Universités de Iéna et de Bayreuth en Allemagne, ainsi qu'aux Universités Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) et Columbia (New York). A côté de son doctorat et son Habilitation en Allemagne, il a aussi soumis une thèse à l’Université de Columbia. Il publie et enseigne en langue allemande, française, anglaise et espagnole et est régulièrement invité à la Sorbonne Université, où il enseigne dans un master de droit bancaire. Parmi les sujets qui l’intéressent particulièrement sont le droit bancaire et financier, surtout dans ces aspects européens et internationaux, le conflit de lois et des juridictions, l’arbitrage, et le droit comparé.

Klaus Löber is the first Chair of the ESMA CCP Supervisory Committee (CCP SC) and Director for Central Counterparties (CCPs) at the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA). He took up office on 1 December 2020 and is serving a five year term. His areas of responsibility encompass the tasks attributed by EMIR to the CCP SC, in particular the enhancement of supervisory convergence and ensuring a resilient CCP landscape in the EU as well the monitoring and management of the risk that CCPs established in third countries may pose to the EU. He is also chairing the ESMA CCP Policy Committee contributing to the EU Single Rule Book in the area of CCPs.

Prior to this role, Mr Löber was Head of Oversight of the European Central Bank in charge of the oversight of financial market infrastructures, payments instruments and schemes.

From 2012 to 2016, he was Head of the Secretariat of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, the global standard setting body in the area of payments, clearing and settlement hosted by the Bank for International Settlement in Basel, Switzerland.

Earlier positions include the European Commission, Deutsche Bundesbank and private practice.

Mr Löber regularly publishes on financial markets legal, regulatory and infrastructure issues and lectures at universities.

She is a full professor of Financial Market Law (IUS 05) at the Department of Law, University of Rome Tor Vergata since 2024 where she also teaches Financial Market Law. She was associate professor of Financial Market Law from 2017 to 2024 and assistant professor from 2007 to 2017, at the same university.

On Feb. 19, 2025, she was appointed by the Ministry of Justice as a full member of the Examination Board for the session of professional eligibility examination for the license to practice statutory auditing for the year 2024.

On March 14, 2024, she is appointed by the Minister of Economy and Finance to the Coordinating Committee for the Organic Reform of Capital Market Provisions.

She is adjunct professor of Market Law and Regulation (IUS 05) at the Master's degree program in Economics, in the Department of Economics and Finance at Luiss Guido-Carli since a.y. 2012/2013.

She was a visiting fellow at the Department of Law of the London School of Economics from September 2016 to June 2017.

She holds a PhD in Economic Law (Faculty of Law - La Sapienza University of Rome).

She holds a bachelor's degree in economics and business administration with 110 cum laude from Luiss Guido Carli and a law degree with 110 cum laude.

She is a lawyer, registered in the Special Register of Lawyers admitted to practice before the Supreme Court and other Superior Jurisdictions; she is a certified public accountant and auditor, registered in the respective Bars.

She has been vice chair of the Board of Directors of Assicurazioni di Roma (AdiR) from 2016 to 2020.

From April 2021 to April 2023, she was a standing member of the Board of Statutory Auditors of BCC di Roma, ICCREA Group.

She is an independent director of Monte dei Paschi di Siena and a member of the Risk and Sustainability Committee since April 2023; she has also been a member of the it Committee since October 2024.

On May 30, 2023, she was appointed to the Board of the Italian Banking Association (ABI).

On November 24, 2023, she was appointed by MISE as Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of Agile srl under Extraordinary Administration.

Francesco Martucci is Professor of Law at Paris-Panthéon-Assas University, Director of the Master’s Degree in European Law Market and Regulation programme. He was an Expert Member of the Haut Comité Juridique de la Place financière de Paris (HCJP) from January 2019 to January 2025.

Francesco Martucci est Professeur de droit à l'Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Directeur du Master Droit européen, Parcours marché et régulation. Il a été membre expert du Haut Comité Juridique de la Place financière de Paris (HCJP) de janvier 2019 à janvier 2025.

Pierre Minor a exercé pendant plus de 25 ans dans le secteur bancaire, à différents postes de directions juridiques. Il a également exercé dans des cabinets d’avocats et a enseigné à l’Université.

Directeur juridique Groupe Crédit Agricole SA. de 2011 à 2021, Pierre Minor était depuis le 1er janvier 2022, Avocat associé au sein du Cabinet COAT Haut de Sigy de Roux Minor. Il a auparavant exercé en qualité d’Avocat associé au sein du Cabinet De Pardieu Brocas Maffei (1998-2011). Il a été Directeur Juridique adjoint à la direction juridique de la Banque Nationale de Paris (1991-1997) et Sous-Directeur à la direction juridique de la Banque Française du Commerce Extérieur (1983-1991).
Il a été lecturer en droit de 1979 à 1983 à l’Université d’Exeter(Grande Bretagne) et Professeur associé à l’Université de Panthéon-Assas (Paris II). Il a publié plusieurs articles relatifs au droit bancaire et financier.  

Pierre MINOR est Médiateur auprès de la Fédération Bancaire Française (FBF) depuis le 23 mai 2024. Il est membre du Haut Comité Juridique de la Place Financière de Paris depuis 2018.

Pierre Minor a présidé l'AEDBF France de 2018 à 2024. Il préside l'AEDBF Europe depuis octobre 2024.

Philipp Paech is an Associate Professor of Law at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and a Global Distinguished Professor of Law at Notre Dame University (UND). He has been an educator, researcher, and policy consultant specialising in the regulation and commercial law of financial services for over 20 years. He served as the chair of the EU Commission expert group on Digital Finance (‘ROFIEG’), and the group's recommendations became a foundational document for the EU Digital Finance Strategy.

Philipp teaches and conducts research at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where his educational portfolio includes various master's and executive courses in International Financial Regulation and International Financial Law. 

Philipp has been a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Law and Finance in since. He also held visiting appointments at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Bocconi University in Milan, and Tokyo University. He is an attorney-at-law in Frankfurt and an accredited mediator in the UK.

Philipp consults for public sector and international governmental organisations, including the OECD, the UK Foreign Office, the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the European Parliament. He has been a member of several international expert groups. His contributions have been instrumental in influencing legal and regulatory reforms for nearly two decades.

Daniela Quelhas works since September 2024 as an Expert in Financial norms with the Financial Department of BNP Paribas SA.

From 2017 to 2024, she worked as a legal counsel on Banking Union Law and EU Institutional Law with the Legal Department of the bank, where she developed knowledge and experience working on regulatory and advisory matters, Advocacy and Litigation.

Prior to joining the BNP Paribas group, Daniela has worked as an attorney in a Parisian law firm and lectured International and European law at several universities.

She holds a master’s degree in European law and the CAPA (certificat d’aptitude à la profession d’avocat).

Justine Rémy holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Fintech Law. She is a lawyer at a Paris-based law firm specialized in commercial and banking litigation, and serves as Secretary General of AEDBF France.

Anne-Claire Rouaud is Professor of Law at the Sorbonne Law School (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University) where she teaches French and European business, banking and financial law.  She is co-director of the Sorbonne Business & Financial Law Research Center (Sorbonne Affaires/Finance). She is one of the authors of a book on Financial law (LGDJ, fourth edition, 2023, 1233 p.)  and the author of a book on Banking Law (LexisNexis, 2023, 725 p.).

She is a member of the Consultative Commission of the AMF (French Financial Markets Authority) on Clearing, Custody and Securities Settlement and an expert member of the Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris (HCJP). She is also Editorial Director of the Banking & Law Review, President of the European Society for Banking and Financial Law (ESBFL/AEDBF France) and a member of the scientific committee of the french association of banking lawyers (Association Nationale des Juristes de Banque) and of the scientific committee of the Legal Blockchain and Cryptos Association.

She also works as a consultant in business law (banking and finance, contract law).

She is a member of the scientific council of the Less is more Report.

Martine Samuelian specializes in banking, investment and payment services as well as in insurance regulation.

She also advises clients on banking and financial litigation (civil and criminal courts or independent administrative authorities such as the AMF and ACPR Sanctions Commissions, the ECB).

This regulatory specialist leads a strong team dedicated to compliance, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing, prudential requirements, governance and blockchain issues, and has been assisting banks, investment firms, portfolio management companies, insurance companies, payment service providers and French and international fintechs, as well as their managers, with applicable regulations for over 35 years. Her clients recognize her technical expertise in financial matters and her knowledge of the markets, stakeholders, products and regulators, which has made her a key contact for the general, legal and compliance departments of these institutions.

She also provides her expertise to the firm's other clients, particularly in the areas of governance, risk management, compliance and anti-corruption.

Martine Samuelian is a member of Jeantet's Board of Partners.

Professor Oana Stefan is the Chair of European Law at King's College London, and director of the Centre of European Law. She held permanent academic positions with HEC Paris, College of Europe, University College Dublin, and a number of visiting positions, including the Vincent Wright Chair at Sciences Po in Paris. She is a scholar of law and governance in the EU, having written on competition and state aid, energy law, financial regulation, health, and the rule of law. Oana Stefan co-led the EU funded Jean Monnet European Network on Soft Law Research which has empirically assessed the use of soft law by national administrations and courts in six countries and four legal fields. She published extensively on soft law including two monographs (Soft Law in Court, Kluwer 2013; EU Soft Law in the Member States, Hart 2021).

Hervé Synvet, agrégé de droit privé et de sciences criminelles, est professeur émérite de l’université Paris-Panthéon-Assas. Il y a enseigné pendant près de trente ans et dirigé le master de droit des affaires ainsi que le master de droit bancaire et financier. Il est membre du Haut Comité Juridique de la place de Paris (HCJP), où il a animé plusieurs groupes de travail (en particulier celui ayant conduit récemment à l’introduction des droits de vote multiples dans le droit français des sociétés cotées). Il assure la direction scientifique du Bulletin Joly Bourse.