Natasha Cazenave

Natasha Cazenave is the Executive Director of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), a position she has held since 1 June 2021. As Executive Director, she forms part of ESMA's two-person senior management team alongside Chair Verena Ross, with the team responsible for leading the organisation. The source content does not identify any specific mandate or initiatives assigned to Cazenave in the areas of digital assets, tokenisation, or blockchain.

Before joining ESMA, Cazenave spent over ten years at the French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), where her final role was Managing Director, Head of the Policy and International Affairs Directorate. During that period she was elected twice as Chair of IOSCO's Policy Committee on Investment Management, in 2012 and 2014, and in February 2015 was appointed co-Chair of the Financial Stability Board's experts group on shadow banking. Prior to the AMF, she spent eight years at Deminor, a consultancy specialised in the defence of minority shareholder rights, where she led collective actions for investors who suffered losses from securities violations and worked on corporate governance best practices. She began her career at Ernst & Young Corporate Finance in the Valuation and Business Modelling team. Cazenave holds a Master's degree from Paris Dauphine University in Banking, Finance and Insurance.