Speaker profile: Matti Leppälä

PensionsEurope is the leading voice for funded pensions in Europe representing 25 European national pension fund associations covering over 100 million Europeans and € 7 trillion of assets. Matti is a member and was the chair and vice-Chair in 2013-2018 of the Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group of EU supervisory authority EIOPA, a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Group of Experts on Pensions 2018 – 2019 and the chair of the World Pension Alliance 2018 – 2019. Before joining PensionsEurope in 2011 Matti worked for 11 years for The Finnish Pension Alliance in EU and international affairs, investment policy and legal issues. In 1990’s Matti worked for the Finnish trade unions in collective bargaining, labor law and social policy. In 1986 Matti started his professional career at the Law Drafting Department of the Ministry of Justice in Finland. Matti has a LLM and an Executive MBA in Insurance and Financial services.