Henning Bergmann
CEO and member of the board of directors
Deutscher Derivate Verband
Henning, a lawyer and banker, has been CEO and member of the board of directors of the German derivatives association (Deutscher Derivate Verband, DDV) since March 2019. He previously served as the association’s managing director from October 2017.
From 2008 to 2017, Dr Bergmann headed the capital markets law division of the German savings banks association (Deutscher Sparkassen- und Giroverband, DSGV.) Here, he was responsible for representing the interests of the association’s members at the national, European, and international levels, as well as the implementation of legislation throughout the German Savings Bank Financial Group (Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe), including the DSGV Mifid project. From 2004 to 2008, he worked at the Lower Saxony Savings Banks Association (Sparkassenverband Niedersachsen), and, in his final position there, headed the investments division and was managing director of a subsidiary.
Henning has authored a number of publications on banking and capital markets law, and was long-standing member of the Consultative Working Group of the Investor Protection and Intermediaries Standing Committee (IPISC) at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).