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Andreas Gutafsson has studied Law and Business at the University of Uppsala. He started his career as a Legal Counsel with the Swedish Supervisory Authority where he held positions within the legal department for investment firms and the supervisory department for marketplaces. During his time with the Swedish FSA he participated in working groups within the EU supervisory authorities and regulatory bodies and the Swedish Ministry of Finance and was seconded to the UK FSA within the Policy Unit of the marketplace department. During that time, he was also a member of the Swedish governmental implementation group for MiFID II. Since 2005 he has been employed by Nasdaq where he has held various positions: VP and Head of Nordic & Baltic Legal, including a secondment to the Washington DC office, Chief Counsel Europe, and most recently Senior Vice President and General Counsel Europe, leading a team of approximately 100 lawyers, compliance officers and surveillance employees, as well as governmental relations. He is a Member of CityUK´s International Regulatory Strategy Group, the Corporate Governance Code group in Sweden and was a Member of ESMA´s Securities and Markets Stakeholders Group during 2019 and 2020.