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Giulia joined AFME in June 2022 and is the Head of Secondary Capital Markets and Wholesale Investor Protection. She runs AFME’s MiFID Steering Committee, the Retail Investment Strategy Working Group, the Investment Research Working Group and other ad hoc MiFID groups. Before joining AFME, Giulia worked at the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for 8 years where she held various policy roles, leading on, and/or contributing to, retail and wholesale policy files. Prior to joining the FCA, Giulia worked for an international law firm (M&A and Capital Markets) and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Legislative Office). Giulia has a law degree from Luiss Guido Carli (Rome) during which she completed a semester abroad at the University of Glasgow, School of Law, within the Erasmus Programme. She holds an LLM in Banking Law and Financial Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Maria Salamanca Mejia is an Executive Director in Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Equities Division. Maria joined the firm in 2021 and is based in London where she looks after Morgan Stanley’s EMEA Market Structure practice. Prior to joining Morgan Staley, Maria held Market Structure positions in other organisations. She represents the EMEA equities business in a range of trade associations, including as Chair of the AFME Securities Trading Committee and is also a member of the Plato Partnership Advisory Committee, amongst other industry groups. Maria graduated from Imperial College, London with an MSc in Management.

Natasha has worked for Deutsche Bank for 30 years, in London, New York and Hong Kong. Having started off in Credit Risk Management, she moved to the Equities Division whereby she had various roles within the Prime Services division including Business Management, Product Development and Market Structure and Regulation. After a brief time working on the Brexit implementation project, she moved into her current role in the Investment Bank covering Market Structure and Regulation across both primary and secondary markets.

Raza has considerable experience in advising trading venues, sell-side and buy-side clients on a variety of regulatory topics including Brexit, MiFID, ESG, Consumer Duty, operational resilience and Fintech, and is considered to be an expert in his field. He also works closely with the broader Linklaters practice areas providing regulatory coverage on derivatives, structured products and corporate matters. Most recently, he has been advising on the implications of the EU and UK's MiFID reforms / proposals and the EU's Retail Investment Strategy.

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