Rafael is the Secretary General of the European Association of CCP Clearing Houses (EACH), the trade body that represents European CCPs. A seasoned professional of capital markets industry which he joined more than 20 years ago, he has in the past represented the interests of regulated market at FESE, worked as an MEP assistant at the European Parliament and advised pension funds as an investment consultant.

He is a member of the ESMA Consultative Working Group for CCP Policy and the ECB’s Market Infrastructures Consultative Group (AMI SeCO).

Rafael also acts as an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Securities Operations & Custody and Member of the Board and Chair of Leadership Circle at the European Society for Association Executives. He has also been an Invited lecturer on CCP Clearing at the Solvay School of Economics and Management.

Rafael studied Business and Economics at Universidad Loyola Andalucia (Spain) and The University of Birmingham (UK) and holds a master’s degree in European economics from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium).