has been named co-head of the International Capital Market Association’s market practice and regulatory policy team and a member of the ICMA’s executive committee.

Westerbarkey has been head of EU public policy at Fidelity International since 2017, based in Luxembourg and Brussels, and has been a board director at FIL (Luxembourg) since 2018. Previously she held public affairs roles with the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Citigroup, and was a lawyer with Clifford Chance.

She will co-lead the MPRP team with its current deputy head, Andy Hill.

“As the scope and complexity of ICMA’s work increase across both the regulatory agenda and the need to drive effective market standards, the new co-head structure will enable a more dedicated senior focus and take a more strategic forward-looking position to enhance the impact and effectiveness of ICMA's work in promoting capital markets’ efficiency and development across all areas of market operation and regions of activity, closely integrated with its sustainable finance and fintech & digitalisation focus,” the ICMA on 14 May 2024.

The ICMA is a standards and lobbying organisation with “620 members active in all segments of international debt capital markets in 68 jurisdictions globally.”

Westerbarkey starts her new role on 3 June.

Updated 15 May 2024 at 5pm to clarify the Fidelity International subsidiary where Westerbarkey has been a board director