Laure Tertrais is appointed Head of the AMF Chair’s Executive Office with effect from 1 April 2023
Laure Tertrais will provide essential support to the AMF Chair and ensure that she has all the backing she needs to carry out her duties. She will ensure that the events scheduled in the Chair’s agenda are smoothly prepared and followed up, and will play a key coordination role with internal and external stakeholders (at the national level). Her duties will include helping to enhance internal management, in particular by identifying the decisions to be made by the Chair in advance, organising and coordinating the Chair's activities, preparing and reviewing materials for her internal and external meetings and speeches, keeping abreast of AMF news and issues, and contributing to the AMF's outreach strategy. Ms Tertrais will also attend Executive Committee and Board meetings and will continue to act as parliamentary advisor.
Laure Tertrais is a graduate of Sciences-Po Paris (public service section-1996). She holds a postgraduate degree in business and economic law from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1994) and passed the exam for the French Bar (Certificat d’aptitude à la profession d’avocat) in 1993.
After initial professional experience as a project manager in the Legal Affairs Department of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain and Saint-Gobain Vitrage, she joined the French financial markets regulator (Commission des Opérations de Bourse) in December 1997, chaired at the time by Michel Prada. As a policy officer in the Legal Affairs Division, she was responsible for legal monitoring of financial transactions (IPOs, takeover bids, etc.), investigating and monitoring sanction proceedings, and representing the AMF in disputes before the judicial and administrative courts.
In 2009, under the then Chairman, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, she was appointed Legislative and Regulatory Affairs Adviser, responsible for monitoring legislative and regulatory texts, analysing the impact of legislative and regulatory texts on the AMF, organising their implementation, and communicating internally and externally on financial regulation issues.
She has been parliamentary and legislative advisor since August 2012 under the successive chairmanships of Gérard Rameix and Robert Ophèle. Her responsibilities include coordinating the AMF's work on legislative and regulatory texts (in coordination with the relevant ministries (Ministry of the Economy, Ministry of Justice) and Parliament. She contributes to the drafting of bills, amendments, arguments and summaries, to building a network of contacts with the National Assembly and the Senate, and promoting the AMF's strategy.
She played an active role in bringing the COB and the CMF together in the follow-up to the Financial Security Act of 1 August 2003, which created the AMF, and in drafting the AMF General Regulation. She has also been involved in all the major financial laws that have marked the history of financial regulation, notably the Banking and Financial Regulation Law of 22 October 2010, the law of 26 July 2013 on the separation and regulation of banking activities, and the PACTE Law of 22 May 2019.
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