European Parliamentary Financial Services Forum

A European financial services industry lobby group set up to get close to MEPs. It is run by John Houston of Houston Consulting, the lobbying and PR firm.

Founding members

• Richard Balfe MEP
• Carles-Alfred Gasoliba i Bohm MEP
• Robert Goebbels MEP
• Chris Huhne MEP
• Othmar Karas MEP
• Giorgos Katiforis MEP
• Piia-Noora Kauppi MEP
• Astrid Lulling MEP
• Ria Oomen-Ruitjen MEP
• John Purvis MEP
• Alexander Radwan MEP
• Karin Riis-Jorgensen MEP
• Olle Schmidt MEP
• Peter Skinner MEP
• Charles Tannock MEP
• Theresa Villiers MEP

Steering Committee

The following are the members of the Forum's Steering Committee, which, together with Financial Industry Members, are the governing body of the Forum.

• Peter Skinner MEP (PES/UK) - Chair

• Piia-Noora Kauppi MEP (EPP-ED/Finland) - Vice Chair

• Margarita Starkeviciute MEP (ALDE/Lithuania) - Vice Chair

Members

• Zsolt László Becsey MEP (EPP-ED/Hungary)

• Pervenche Berès MEP (PES/France)

• Manuel António dos Santos MEP (PES/Portugal)

• Jonathan Evans MEP (EPP-ED/UK)

• Robert Goebbels MEP (PES/Luxembourg)

• Wolf Klinz MEP (ALDE/Germany)

• Astrid Lulling MEP (EPP-ED/Luxembourg)

• Gay Mitchell TD MEP (EPP-ED/Ireland)

• Alexander Radwan MEP (EPP-ED/Germany)

• Dariusz Rosati MEP (PES/Poland)

• Ieke van den Burg MEP (PES/Netherlands)

• Sophia in 't Veld MEP (ALDE/Netherlands)

Industry members

Chairman

• Mrs. Judith Hardt

Federation of European Securities Exchanges Members (FESE)

Members

Mrs. Lie Junius	ABN AMRO Bank
Mrs. Florence Lombard	The Alternative Investment Management Association Ltd (AIMA)
Mr. David Bennett	Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers (APCIMS)
Mr. Jacques Maire	AXA
Mr. Javier Arias	Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
Mrs. Christine Farnish	Barclays plc
Mrs. Dominique Graber	BNP Paribas
Mr. Kurt Schacht	Chartered Financial Analyst Institute (CFA)
Mrs. Susanne Denison-Knowles	Citigroup
Mr. Helmuth Martin	Commerzbank AG
Mr. Ansgar Tietmeyer	Deutsche Bank AG
Mrs. Henriette Peucker	Deutsche Börse AG
Mr. Henning Schoppmann	European Association of Public Banks (EAPB)
Mr. Guido Ravoet	European Banking Federation (EBF)
Mrs. Annik Lambert	European Mortgage Federation (EMF)
Mr. Chris De Noose	European Savings Banks Group (ESBG)
Mr. Paul Symons	Euroclear
Mr. Antonio Hernandez Laviades	Euronext
Mrs. Michaela Koller	European Insurance and Reinsurance Federation (CEA)
Mr. Javier Echarri	European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (EVCA)
Mr. Henri Olivier	European Federation of Accountants (FEE)
Mr. Anthony Belchambers	Futures and Options Association (FOA) - describes itself as a founding member on its website
Mr. Freddy Van den Spiegel	Fortis Bank
Mr. Richard O'Toole	Goldman Sachs International
Mr. Gregor Pozniak	International Capital Market Association (ICMA)
Mr. David Pollard	ING
Mrs. Alessandra Perrazzelli	Intesa Sanpaolo
Mr. Roger Cogan	International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA)
Mr. Richard Kaye	JP Morgan
Mr. Jonathan Taylor	London Investment Banking Association (LIBA)
Mr. Alastair Evans	Lloyd's
Mr. Roger Grazebrook	Lloyds TSB
Mr. Christoph Baert	MasterCard Europe
Mr. Mitchell Coen	Merrill Lynch
Mr. Hannu Halttunen	Nordea Bank Finland
Mrs. Sally Padget	Prudential plc
Mr. Howard Davies	Royal Bank of Scotland
Mr. Bertrand Huet	The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA)
Mr. Frédéric de Brouwer	Société Générale
Mr. Christopher Lake	Standard and Poor's
Mr. Pehr Wissén	Svenska Handelsbanken
Mr. Jon Carr	UBS AG
Mr. Peter Rieger	UniCredit Group
Mr. Peter Moller Jensen	VISA Europe
Mrs. MP Azevedo	Western Union International Bank

Secretary

• Ms. Gabriela Diezhandino

EPFSF Secretariat

+32 2 504 80 40

Contact

Website: http://www.epfsf.org/