Rémi Bouchez, the new Ombudsman of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers
Rémi Bouchez, Honorary Section President of the Conseil d'Etat and former Chair of the ACPR Sanctions Committee, has been appointed AMF Ombudsman with effect from 1 December 2025. He succeeds Marielle Cohen-Branche, who held this position for 14 years.
Appointed by the AMF Chair, Marie-Anne Barbat-Layani, the Ombudsman's term of office is three years, renewable. The AMF Ombudsman is listed by the European Commission as an alternative dispute resolution body. AMF mediation is an independent, free, impartial and confidential public service that resolves disputes between retail investors and financial intermediaries out-of-court. It also helps to improve professional practices through the recommendations made to financial market participants.
Rémi Bouchez is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, and holds a law degree. He has devoted his career to serving the public interest.
After starting his career in the Budget Department and later the Economic Affairs Department of the General Secretariat of the Government, Rémi Bouchez was a Conseiller d'État from 2001 to 2019, an assessor in the Litigation Section from 2003 to 2010 and subsequently Deputy President of the Finance Section from 2010 to 2019. In November 2019, he became President of the Administration Section, before taking on the role of Deputy President of the Public Works Section from October 2024 and of judge hearing applications for interim measures in the Litigation Section until October 2025.
In parallel, as a high-ranking judge, he was entrusted with various mandates within public authorities. He joined the ACPR's Sanctions Committee in 2010 as a member, before chairing it from 2013 to 2020. He was also a member of the Cour de Discipline Budgétaire et Financière from 2013 to 2019. Rémi Bouchez has been a member of the Haute Autorité pour la Transparence de la Vie Publique (HATVP) since December 2023.
Rémi Bouchez will be assisted in his role as independent ombudsman for the AMF by the legal teams of the Ombudsman’s Unit under the Retail Investor Relations and Protection Directorate.
I would like to welcome Rémi Bouchez, who we are delighted and proud to welcome as AMF Ombudsman. The AMF is honoured that such a well-known and widely respected figure is taking up this key role, a role which forms an integral part of the mission to protect savings entrusted to the AMF by law. Naturally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Marielle Cohen-Branche, who has embodied this role with exceptional energy for fourteen years, contributing to the development of many professional practices. I would like to pay tribute to her sense of public service and her constant striving to put retail investors at the centre of her concerns".
About the AMF
The AMF is an independent public authority responsible for ensuring that savings invested in financial products are protected and that investors are provided with adequate information. The AMF also supervises the orderly operations of markets. Visit our website: https://www.amf-france.org/en
