René Karsenti is Senior Adviser to the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), and served as ICMA President from May 2006 to May 2019. The mission of ICMA is to promote resilient and well-functioning international cross-border debt securities markets which are essential to fund sustainable economic growth and development. ICMA is a membership association committed to serving the needs of its wide range of members which includes private and public sector issuers, financial intermediaries, asset managers and other investors, capital market infrastructure providers, central banks, law firms and others worldwide. ICMA which was established more than 50 years ago, currently has more than 560 members located in over 60 countries.   From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Karsenti was also Chairman of the International Council of Securities Associations (ICSA), and from 2008 to 2014, Chairman of the European Capital Market Institute (ECMI). From 1995 until joining ICMA in 2006, he was Director General of Finance at the European Investment Bank (EIB) in Luxembourg, having previously served as Treasurer of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London from its inception in May 1991 to 1995.  Prior to joining EBRD, from 1979 he held a variety of senior positions in the treasury organisations of the World Bank Group (IBRD & IFC), including as IFC Treasurer. From 1976 to 1979 he was a securities analyst and portfolio manager at Caisse des Depots, Paris.