Bio: 

Randy Priem is a finance professor at UBI Business School (Middlesex University London) and Antwerp Management School (AMS), where he teaches financial markets, international financial management, entrepreneurial finance, and FinTech courses.  He published in several international journals such as the Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, Securities Law Review, Journal of World Energy Law & Business, European Law Review, the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Securities Regulation Law Journal, and European Management Review. He presented his work at various international conferences in e.g. Chicago, Toronto, Atlanta, Brussels, Paris, London, Istanbul, Vallendar, Porto, Madrid, Amsterdam, Seoul, Washington DC, Nottingham, and Houston. He also has been a guest professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Furthermore, he is an affiliate researcher of Université Saint-Louis Brussel. 

Besides being an academic, he is the coordinator of the markets and post-trading unit at the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), where he supervises, and coordinates a team supervising, the Belgian regulated markets, multilateral trading facilities, and central securities depositories. He is takes care of the supervision of the Belgian financial benchmark administrators, investment firms reporting under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), and corporations reporting under the European Market Infrastructures Regulation (EMIR). 

He is a member of various standing committees and working groups at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), such as the markets standing committee, the data standing committee, the European supervisory policy committee, the post-trading working group, the CCP policy committee, and the DLT working group. He further represents the FSMA at the Steering Group of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) – International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and was a member of the IOSCO CDS task force and the IOSCO benchmarks task force. He is a member of six EMIR colleges of central counterparties, four CCP resolution colleges, and also represents the FSMA at the Target2-Securities cooperative oversight college. He often represents Belgium as a national expert at the European Council when new legislation is drafted and was a member of the Belgian presidency when the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) was revised. 

In 2024, he started as seconded senior policy advisor at the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). There, he takes care of the cooperation with the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) for policy work related to margins and general business losses of central counterparties as well as operational resilience of financial market infrastructures.  

Randy Priem holds a Ph.D. in business economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and worked as a visiting researcher at the Schulich School of Business in Toronto (Canada). He is also a certified Scrum master and a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. 

In his spare time, he enjoys playing the bass guitar, reading books and gardening. He is also a volunteer in the board of WIOS VZW (i.e. a certified synchronic swimming club) besides being a proud father and happy husband.