Mr. Robert PRIESTER Head of Department, Banking Supervision, Financial Markets and International Affairs European Banking Federation

Robert Priester is Head of Department, Banking Supervision, Financial Markets and International Affairs at the European Banking Federation. He is a Dutch national with a Law Degree from Leyden University.

Robert joined the EBF in 2004 as Head of the Legal and Consumer Affairs Department, before moving to his present position in September 2006.

Before joining the EBF, Robert was Senior Legal Adviser with EFAMA (formerly FEFSI) the fund and asset management federation based in Brussels, where he dealt with issues ranging from UCITS, MiFID, FSAP, Lamfalussy, fund as well as corporate governance questions and taxation matters. Before joining EFAMA in March 2000, Robert was executive assistant with CEA (Comit? Europ?en des Assurances) in Brussels for 6 years with responsibilities for international affairs (OECD, GATS, ...) and EU-sponsored technical assistance project management work in the Russian Federation and various Central and Eastern European countries. Prior to that Robert was assistant to the Secretary General and adviser on tax, social affairs and legal matters at the European Savings Banks Group in Brussels from 1991 until 1994. Robert also previously completed a traineeship with the European Commission in their competition services in 1990.

Robert is married and has 3 children.