12.10.2025

ESMA Chair to Step Down at End of Current Term

12.10.2025
ESMA Chair to Step Down at End of Current Term

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, today announces that its Chair, Verena Ross, has decided to not renew her term as Chair for a second mandate.

She will remain fully committed to ESMA and continue her work as ESMA’s Chair until the end of her contract on 31 October 2026.

ESMA will now launch the process for selecting a new Chair.

Source: ESMA

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