Andrea Gentilini has been Head of Financial Market Infrastructures division of the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) since February 2017. The division is responsible for policy and supervision in post-trading. He is also Alternate Member of the ESMA Board of Supervisor for the CSSF and represents the CSSF in several ESMA Standing Committees (MSC, RSC, DSC). Since March 2023, he has been appointed Chair of the ESMA Post Trading Working Group and co-Chair of the T2S Cooperative Arrangement. He is also Chair of the ESMA CSDR TF, responsible for the ESMA reports on settlement activities and for Shortening the settlement cycle in the EU.

Andrea Gentilini has been Chair of the CEMA EMIR Task Force, responsible for the development of EMIR risk indicators, to promote data driven supervision and supervisory convergence with a simplified and burden reduced framework, as well as knowledge sharing and peer learning.
Andrea Gentilini joined the CSSF in 2014 and has been working in the Financial Market Infrastructure Division ever since, contributing to the development of the CSSF’s authorisation process for CSDs under CSDR and support the work of the CSSF in the policy activity related to CSDR, EMIR and SFTR. Before joining the CSSF in 2014, he worked 15 years in the financial sector, mainly as portfolio manager, in Luxembourg and in P.R. of China.

Andrea Gentilini was born in Milan, Italy and studied economics at Bocconi University, where he obtained also a MSc in economics.