About the FMI Chair

The Special Chair of Financial Market Infrastructures (“FMIs”) at the Tilburg School of Economics and Management at Tilburg University in the Netherlands was established in December 2010 as FMIs were under-researched and under-taught at universities worldwide relative to the fundamental importance of their economic function and contribution to global financial stability. The special chair provides a link needed between theory and practice as the study of FMIs requires thorough knowledge of the academic literature but also a lot of practical, tacit insights from the industry and familiarity with the regulatory environment. Professor Dr. R.J.(Ron) Berndsen has been appointed as professor for the Special Chair of Financial Market Infrastructures, and CCP Global sponsors his chair for the next 5 years. Previously, the Central Bank of the Netherlands (DNB) sponsored the chair.

About Ron Berndsen

Ron Berndsen

Professor Ron Berndsen is senior independent non-executive director of LCH Ltd and LCH SA. He is the chair of the LCH Risk Committees and a member of Audit Co, Operational Resilience Co and Nomination Co.

Ron is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Quantoz Payments BV.

He is also attached to the Tilburg School of Economics and Management at Tilburg University (Netherlands) as full professor of Financial Market Infrastructures, sponsored by CCP Global.

 

Ron is a member of the Advisory Council of the SWIFT Institute. Previously, Ron was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Financial Market Infrastructures. 

He has been active in the field of payments and financial market infrastructures for over 19 years. He was Head of the Oversight Department and Head of the Market Infrastructures Policy Department at De Nederlandsche Bank.

Ron also served as a member on the Market Infrastructure Board at the European Central Bank and as member of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures at the Bank of International Settlements.

He also co-chaired the FSB Group on Cross-Border Crisis Management for Financial Market Infrastructures and was a member of the oversight committees of CLS, EuroCCP, Euroclear, LCH, SWIFT and TARGET2.

He was awarded a doctorate of Tilburg University  in 1992 for his PhD thesis in Economics and Artificial Intelligence (https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/r-j-berndsen).