Gabriel Bernardino is Chairman of CEIOPS. He has been in the role since the end of October 2009. He had a long carrier on regulation and supervision of insurance and pension funds at the Portuguese Insurance and Pension Funds Supervisory Authority (ISP), where he is presently General Director of the Directorate for Development and Institutional Relations.
He was Chairman of CEIOPS 'Internal Governance, Supervisory Review and Reporting Expert Group' dealing with Pillars II and III of Solvency II and accounting related issues.
During the Portuguese Presidency of the EU in the second semester of 2007 he chaired the Council Working group in charge of discussing the EU Commission Directive proposal on Solvency II.