Carsten Ostermann

Mr Ostermann joined ESMA in 2012, became Team Leader for Secondary Markets in 2014 and Head of the Trading Unit in 2019. He is responsible for implementing measures for MiFID II and for the practical implementation and supervisory convergence of MiFID II requirements at ESMA on the market structure side. In addition, he is responsible for supervisory convergence and implementing measures in the area of market integrity and post-trading. Prior to joining ESMA, Mr Ostermann was a seconded expert at the European Commission in the securities unit. He also served as a policy officer in both, the German Ministry of Finance and Germany’s financial regulator, BaFin. Before joining the public sector, Mr Ostermann was a consultant for an auditing firm in London. Mr Ostermann studied law at Marburg, Bielefeld and Glasgow.