Saturday, November 9, 2024

477 Akkie Lansberg
Managing Director - Holland Financial Centre

Akkie Lansberg started her career in 1994 with Deloitte & Touche management consultants. After moving to London in 1996 and working for a boutique consultancy firm, she joined Morgan Stanley in 1999 in de Investment Banking Division. Prime work focus was convertible and equity origination and syndication. She moved to Morgan Stanley's Institutional Equity Division. After returning to Amsterdam she joined the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) in 2004, where she was responsible for setting up the supervision for the new market abuse directive, which was implemented in Dutch law in October 2005. The supervision of the market abuse directive includes a real time securities market monitoring team and an investigation team and focuses on the prohibitions of insider trading and market manipulation and the obligation for listed companies to disclose price sensitive information. In December 2007, Lansberg left the AFM to become managing director of Holland Financial Centre.