Position:
Head of Recovery and Resolution division
Organisation:
European Commission (DG FISMA)
Alain Girard (1981) is admitted to the bar and holds a doctorate in law as well as a degree in economics. He has been Head of the Recovery and Resolution division and a Member of FINMA’s Executive Board since 1 August 2022. From 2019 until 2022 he was Head of Supervision of Small Banks and Securities Firms. Alain Girard previously worked in FINMA’s Recovery and Resolution division from 2015. Before joining FINMA, he worked at a law firm in Zurich and for the Competition Commission as a research associate and Deputy Head of the Centre of Competence for Law. He simultaneously provided advanced training for the debt enforcement and bankruptcy offices of the Cantons Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Neuchâtel and Vaud.