Niki Beattie has more than 25 years of capital markets experience, particularly focusing on capital markets infrastructure and the impact of technology and regulation. She spent 17 years working in investment banking and became Managing Director and Head of EMEA Market Structure at Merrill Lynch International before founding Market Structure Partners, a strategic consulting firm specialising in the structure of global capital markets. Niki also has a number of Non Executive Board roles; she is Chairman of two UK firms, Aquis Exchange and XTX Markets Ltd, as well as a member of the Board of Kepler Cheuvreux UK Ltd. She is also a member of the Boards of Borsa Istanbul, Turkey’s main stock Exchange, and IRESS, a listed Australian financial technology company. She was previously on the Board of MOEX, Russia’s exchange. Alongside these roles, she also sits on the Consultative Working Group to ESMA’s Secondary Markets Standing Committee and is a member of the UK FCA’s Regulatory Decisions Committee.