Martin Boer is the Director of Regulatory Affairs at the IIF. He advocates and contributes to the IIF work on regulatory consistency, impact assessment, prudential capital and liquidity standards, insurance regulation and the growing area of non-bank/non-insurance regulatory issues. He previously served as the Secretary General of the European Financial Services Round Table, a Brussels based industry organization comprising the CEO’s and Chairmen of Europe’s 22 leading banks and insurance companies. Before that he served in various positions at ING Group, as the Global Head of Public Relations in Amsterdam and a Senior Manager of Public and Government Affairs in Brussels. He has also worked as a consultant for UNDP in Namibia and as a journalist at The Financial Times and Bloomberg News.