Benoît Gourisse, Head of Asia Pacific, ISDA
Benoît Gourisse has worked for ISDA for ten years. He has served as Senior director, European Public, from 2011 to 2020, then Deputy Head, European Public Policy and was appointed Head of Asia Pacific in April 2021.
He headed European ISDA work streams on Commodities, application of non-cleared margin rules, recovery and resolution framework for CCPs, CCP supervision, MiFID 2/ MiFIR framework and is the ISDA primary contact to the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
Prior to ISDA, Mr. Gourisse spent five years at the French Banking Federation in Paris, where he was deputy director of Corporate and Investment bank activities. In this role he advised the executive management of French banks in every issue relating to financial markets, corporate services, custodian activities, asset management and distribution of financial instruments to retail investors.
He also worked for the French Savings banks as head of legal department and for Société Générale as compliance officer.
Mr. Gourisse has a Masters Degree in tax and business law from Paris XI University.