Alberto Garcia, Senior Officer, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
Alberto Garcia was born in Spain in 1973. Degree in Law (University of Zaragoza) and LL.M. in Law (London School of Economics). Worked as senior legal officer for the Spanish Securities Markets Commission (Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores) between 2000 and 2008. Currently working as senior officer of ESMA, where he has tackled secondary markets, market abuse, short-selling, crypto-assets and post-trading issues since 2009. As part of his work, he is currently analysing the eventual shortening of the settlement cycle in the EU and the impact for EU market participants of shorter settlement cycles in third-country jurisdictions.