Rodrigo Buenaventura
Chair of National Securities Market Commission (CNMV)
National Securities Market Commission (CNMV)
About Rodrigo Buenaventura
Rodrigo Buenaventura is serving as Chair of CNMV since 2020. He is also chairing the ESMA Markets Standing Committee and the IOSCO Sustainable Finance Task Force since December 2022. Additionally, he is Vice-Chair of the OECD’s Corporate Governance Committee.
From 2017 to 2020 he was Director General for Markets at the CNMV, leading supervision and policy on secondary markets, primary markets, financial reporting, corporate governance and market abuse investigations.
From 2011 to 2017 he was the first Head of Markets of the then newly-created ESMA. He was in charge of policy on post-trading, secondary markets, market data and market conduct (short selling and market abuse). During this period, he contributed to the build-up of the organisation and led the team that undertook the drafting and consultation of technical standards under many EU regulations enacted after the financial crisis: EMIR, MiFID II, CSDR, Short Selling, Market Abuse, Benchmarks and SFTR.
From 2005 to 2011 he was, subsequently, Head of International and Head of Secondary Markets at CNMV.
From 1993 to 2004 he developed a career as a financial consultant at a leading private Spanish consulting company (AFI).
He graduated in Economics at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
