Frédéric Pelèse is Deputy Executive Director of the AMF’s Regulatory policy and international affairs directorate.

A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris and the London School of Economics, Frédéric began his career in 2000 in the mergers and acquisitions advisory department of Crédit Agricole Indosuez in Paris. He joined the AMF’s Corporate Finance Directorate in 2005, where his responsibilities included controlling takeover bids and contributing to the development of French takeover law. Frédéric then moved to the Regulatory Policy and International Affairs Directorate as senior advisor in the Asset Management Regulation Division. He was appointed deputy to the head of this division in 2013, in which capacity he was closely involved in the French implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) Directive and the reform of money market funds. Between 2014 and 2017, he was seconded to the European Commission in the security markets unit of the Directorate General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA), where he contributed to the elaboration of the Prospectus Regulation, the development of the Level 2 measures of MiFID II, as well as the review of the Short Selling Regulation.