Eddy Wymeersch is former Chair of the

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( CESR), former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the

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, Brussels; Chairman of the European Regional Committee and Member of the Executive Committee and of the Technical Committee of the

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Career

Mr Wymeersch has held several public functions in Belgium. He is a Member of the European Corporate Governance Forum and Member of the Belgian High level Committee for a new Financial Architecture. He is the current Chairman of the European Corporate Governance Institute. He is Emeritus Professor of Commercial Law,

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, Belgium, teaching on company law, securities regulation and banking law and Co-founder of the Financial Law Institute, University of Ghent. Mr Wymeersch was also Co-chair of the CESR- ESCB Working group on clearing and settlement. He has been consultant to the

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and IFC; a member of the corporate governance commission of the Brussels Stock Exchange and chairman of the SLIM working party ( Simpler Legislation for the Internal Market) on the 1st and 2nd directive. Mr Wymeersch has been an adviser to the Belgian Government - as member of the Legislative Branch of the Council of State. He was a member of the supervisory board of the

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and the Belgian Corporate Governance Commission. He was Chairman of the Board of Brussels International Airport Company (BIAC) and adviser on governance issues to several listed Belgian companies. He was also a member of the board of the ''Belgian-Luxemburg Exchange Control'' (Institut Belgo-Luxembourgeois du Change), chaired by the Governor of the

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, until November 2002 when this institution was dissolved (Euro). Additionally, Mr Wymeersch has been a member of the Beirat of the

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in Hamburg and a member of the editorial or advisory boards of several Belgian and European law reviews. He has published widely on securities regulation, companies law and

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. Mr Wymeersch studied law at

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and Harvard Law School.

Publications

Books

*''Comparative Corporate Governance: Essays and Materials'', 1997 *''Capital Markets and Company Law'', 2003 *''Investor Protection in Europe: Corporate Law Making - The MiFID and Beyond'', 2006

Articles

*''International Securities Regulation : Belgium'', in Robert C. Rosen, Irving M. Pollack and William B. Haseltine (eds.), ''ISR'' (Oceana Publications, Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. 1988). *With Catherine Terrier, ''De Commissie voor het Bank-, Financie- en Assurantiewezen en de financieel-economische recherche - De noodzaak voor een integere en betrouwbare financiële sector'', in Michel J. de Samblanx et al., ''L'enquête en matière financière et économique'' (Politeia, Brussels 2004), pp. 69–85.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wymeersch, Eddy Belgian economists Ghent University alumni Academic staff of Ghent University Flemish academics International finance economists Living people Harvard Law School alumni 1943 births