Steve Ryan is currently a senior expert in the retail financial services unit in the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services & Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) of the European Commission. Before that, he was deputy head of the anti-money laundering unit and of the insurance and pensions unit.
Previously, he worked in DG Competition on antitrust investigations in the financial services field. He studied at Oxford University and at the French Ecole Nationale d’Administration, and served as a UK civil servant and diplomat before joining the European Commission.