Eva Hüpkes

Head Regulatory and Supervisory Policies at Secretariat
Financial Stability Board

Eva Hüpkes is Head Regulatory and Supervisory Policies at Secretariat of the Financial Stability Board. She oversees the FSB Secretariat support on regulatory and supervisory policy cooperation and resolution, covering a broad range of issues including addressing regulatory and supervisory issues associated with technological innovation. Since she joined the FSB in 2009, she has contributed substantially to the development of the FSB/G20 post-crisis policy reforms, in particular the framework for addressing threats to financial stability posed by systemically important financial institutions and global standards for resolution.

Before FSB, she served as Head of Regulation at the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) where she, for over a decade, helped design and draft a broad range of legislative and regulatory reforms. During 1997-1999 she worked at the International Monetary Fund where she supported the Fund’s response to the Asian financial crisis.

Eva Hüpkes is a member of the New York Bar and holds degrees in law and international relations from the University of Geneva, the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, and Georgetown University, the University of Passau, Germany, and a PhD in law from the University of Berne.