Nandini Sukumar is the Chief Executive Officer of the World Federation of Exchanges, the global association for exchanges and CCP’s. The WFE represents more than 200 exchanges and clearing houses globally, educating stakeholders on the vital role played by market infrastructures in the real economy and as a standard setter, finding the consensus on issues among the global membership. The market capitalization of entities listed on WFE member exchanges is $68.5 trillion and around $26 trillion in trading annually passes through the infrastructures that the WFE members safeguard.
Ms Sukumar has been CEO of the WFE since March 2015. Prior to this, she served as Acting Chief Executive Officer from November 2014, having been recruited by the WFE Board as Chief Administrative Officer in May 2014 to run the Federation on a daily basis and work with its global network of members as a proponent of the benefits of fair, orderly, public markets. Ms Sukumar came to the WFE after a 14-year career at Bloomberg where she created, grew and ran their coverage of market structure, exchanges and UK regulation.
