Arlene McCarthy OBE is the Executive Director of AMC Strategy. She is Special Advisor to the Chairman of Bloomberg and a Non-Executive Director for Bloomberg TFL and TRL. She is a member of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance.
Ms McCarthy advises on a broad range of EU Financial services regulation and policymaking, including Capital markets Union and Sustainable Finance.She is a strategic policy advisor to Bloomberg Philanthropies and to Michael Bloomberg’s team engaged on the FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures, supporting Bloomberg’s Head of Sustainability. She is a strategic policy adviser to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.
Ms McCarthy has over 20 years of European legislative & Policy experience as President of the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Affairs Committee and VicePresident of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. She was the rapporteur and shadow rapporteur on key financial services dossiers MiFID II, MiFIR, Market Abuse, Benchmarks, CRD III, UCITS, Banking Reform and was Parliament’s key negotiator on the EU directive on transparency and accounting standards.
Ms McCarthy was named as one of the top 100 influential women in European Finance in 2010, 2011 & 2012 and she was awarded 2014 Parliamentarian of the Year for outstanding contribution to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee. She was also awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) in the Queen’s 2015 New Year’s Honours List for Parliamentary and Political Services.
