Maria Raffaella Assetta is the Head of the Unit for International Affairs in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services, and Capital Markets Union.   

Lawyer by education, she started her professional career in the private sector as independent attorney-at-law before joining the European Commission in 2002, where she has been working in policy coordination, policy development, and enforcement of EU law, first in the field of public procurement and since 2010 in the field of financial services and capital movements.  

In the financial services field, she followed closely the implementation of the financial reform in the aftermath of the financial crisis. In her current position, she is in charge of developing and coordinating the strategy for the engagement with third country jurisdictions.