The current secretary general of Bercy would succeed Robert Ophèle whose mandate ended at the end of July. The Assembly and the Senate must still decide on its appointment.
Le Monde with AFP
President Emmanuel Macron plans to appoint the current secretary general of Bercy, Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, as president of the Financial Markets Authority (AMF), to succeed Robert Ophèle whose mandate ended At the end of July, announced the Élysée Thursday September 29.
The National Assembly and the Senate must still decide on its appointment, proposed to the President of the Republic by the Prime Minister. A graduate of the ENA, Ms. Barbat-Layani would be the first woman to occupy this position. His appointment would reconnect with the tradition of appointing an enarch at the head of the French stock market gendarme, Robert Ophèle was the first president of the AMF not having followed this course.
Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, 55, displays a career which she described as “very varied” to “dominant public sector” in an interview given in 2020 to the association of former students of the ENA. She also worked for the private banking sector.
passionate about “financial regulation, Europe”
She was Director General from 2014 to 2019 of the French Banking Federation (FBF), a organization defending the interests of the banking sector, and had held before that the position of Deputy Director of the National Federation of Crédit Agricole for three years, where she took care of financial, banking, legal, tax and European affairs.
On her LinkedIn account, she says she is passionate about “financial regulation, Europe, transformation, sustainable development”. As timely interest subjects in view of the challenges that should occupy its mandate: European regulation of cryptoactives, support for the rise of sustainable finance and the fight against “greenwashing” in this area.
Before her post as secretary general of the Ministry of Economy, started in December 2019, Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani had first experience in government as deputy director of François Fillon’s office, during her last two years spent in Matignon. Former pupil of Sciences Po Paris and ENA -Promotion Léon Gambetta (1991-1993) -, Ms. Barbat -Layani made a long visit to the Directorate of the Treasury, from 1993 to 1997 then from 2002 to 2007 and worked three years at the General Inspectorate of Finance from 2012.