Martin Merlin

Mr. Merlin is Director of DG FISMA (European Commission). He studied international affairs, economics and philosophy in Paris. He has lectured on financial services at the European College of Parma (Italy) and at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris). He started his career at the French Treasury, where he worked for two years as a Desk Officer in the International Monetary and Financial affairs unit. He joined the European Commission in 1997 to work on insurance and pension funds issues in DG Internal Market. Between 2000 and 2004, he was Assistant to the Director General for the Internal Market. From November 2004 to January 2008 he was a member of cabinet with Commissioner Charlie McCreevy. He left the cabinet to return to DG Internal Market where he was Head of Unit G1 responsible for financial services policy. This unit is, inter alia, in charge of defining and implementing the European’s Commission policy in the area of financial supervision.