ESMA Names Annemie Rombouts as Chair of CRSC

​The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced on Thursday that it has named Annemie Rombouts as its new Chair of the Corporate Reporting Standing Committee (CRSC), effective immediately and running until February 2022.

According to a recent press release, Annemie Rombouts, previously the Deputy Chair of the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FMSA), has been selected by ESMA, a European Union financial regulatory agency, for the position of Chair of the CRSC.

Made up by expert groups drawn from ESMA staff and Member States' national competent authorities for securities markets regulation, the standing committee is responsible for contributing to and/or monitoring of regulatory developments as well as establishing appropriate supervisory convergence on issues relating to accounting, periodic financial reporting, non-financial reporting, electronic reporting developments and storage of regulated information as well as audit.

Prior to the appointment, Rombouts served as the Deputy Chair of the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority, where she joined in 1999 and started her career in the organization from the position of Director, Legal department.

Alongside her time at FSMA, she was the Deputy Chief Of Staff in the Cabinet of the Minister of Finance, Belgium. For fifteen months, she served her country effectively between March 2013 and May 2014.