Mark Austen is the Chief Executive Officer of the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA).  Since joining ASIFMA in 2012, he has led the expansion of the association to encompass Equities, Compliance, Post-Trade and Asset Management in addition to its original division for Fixed Income, and its membership has grown to over 165 firms.

Mark was also the CEO of the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA) from 2016 to 2018, which represents the common interests of the world’s leading financial and capital market participants, and speaks for the industry on the most important global market issues.  GFMA brings together three of the world’s leading financial trade associations to address the increasingly important global regulatory agenda and to promote coordinated advocacy efforts. GFMA comprises ASIFMA based in Hong Kong, The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) in London and Brussels and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) in New York and Washington.