Inter-American Regional Committee
The IARC is one of four regional committees constituted by IOSCO to focus on regional issues relating to securities regulation in the Inter-American region. The IARC meets generally in conjunction with the Council of Securities Regulators of the Americas (COSRA).
Members of the Inter-American Regional Committee
Chair
Ms. Lucia Buenrostro, Ph.D., Vice President of Regulatory Policy, Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, Mexico
Lucía Buenrostro holds a bachelor’s degree on Actuary from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
She has a master's degree in Economics from El Colegio de México and a master's degree in Mathematics and Finance from the Imperial College of the United Kingdom. Lucía also holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Warwick.
She has a broad and solid background in the international financial system, where she has worked for almost 15 years. She has been responsible for the risk management areas covering different investment portfolios (equity, credit, interest rates, exchange rates, and commodities) and various types of risks (market, credit, and operational). In regulatory matters, she has coordinated projects to implement the Basel Accords, particularly the quantitative impact analysis of Basel III and its subsequent reforms.
She has been a lecturer and researcher at UNAM, the University of Warwick, and the University of Oxford. She has published in internationally renowned academic journals, and she is currently a writer in a Mexican newspaper. She was distinguished with academic scholarships from CONACYT (Mexico) and the Royal Economic Society (United Kingdom).
She was appointed Vice President for Regulatory Policy at the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) of Mexico, starting on November 2021.
Vice Chair
Ms. Christina Rolle, Executive Director, Securities Commission of The Bahamas, Bahamas
Board Representative
Mr. Roberto E. Silva, Chairman, Comisión Nacional de Valores, Argentina
Members (29)
Alberta Securities Commission, Alberta
(Mr. Stan Magidson, Chair and CEO)
Comisión Nacional de Valores, Argentina
(Mr. Roberto E. Silva, Chairman)
Securities Commission of The Bahamas, Bahamas
(Ms. Christina Rolle, Executive Director)
Financial Services Commission, Barbados
(Prof. Frank Alleyne, Chairman)
Financial Services Commission, Belize
(Mr. Claude Haylock, Director General / Mr. Franco Destro, Special Counsel to FSC Director General)
Bermuda Monetary Authority, Bermuda
(Mr. Craig Swan, CEO / Elizabeth Copeland, Assistant Director / Ifor Hughes / Jamila Faries / Justin Madeiros / Mellisa Burgess)
Autoridad de Supervisión del Sistema Financiero, Bolivia
(Dra. Lenny Valdivia Bautista, Securities Supervision Director)
Comissão de Valores Mobiliários, Brazil
(Mr. Otto Lobo, Acting Chairman)
British Columbia Securities Commission, British Columbia
(Ms. Brenda M. Leong, Chair and Chief Executive Officer)
British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission, British Virgin Islands
(Mr. Kenneth Baker, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer)
Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, Cayman Islands
(Mrs. Cindy Scotland, OBE, Chief Executive Officer)
Comisión para el Mercado Financiero (Financial Market Commission), Chile
(Mrs. Solange Berstein, Chairwoman)
Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia, Colombia
(Ms. Juliana Lagos Camargo, Directora de Investigación y Desarrollo)
Superintendencia General de Valores, Costa Rica
(Sr. Tomás Soley Pérez, Superintendente General de Valores)
Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores, Dominican Republic
(Mr. Ernesto Bournigal Read, Superintendent / Ángel Julián Serulle Joa, Intendent)
Superintendencia de Compañías, Valores y Seguros, Ecuador
(Mr. Luis Alberto Cabezas-Klaere, Superintendente de Compañías, Valores y Seguros)
Superintendencia del Sistema Financiero, El Salvador
(Mrs. Evelyn Marisol Gracias, Superintendente del Sistema Financiero)
Financial Services Commission, Jamaica
(Lieutenant Colonel Keron Burrell, Executive Director)
Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores, Mexico
(Ms. Lucia Buenrostro, Ph.D., Vice President of Regulatory Policy / Mr. Javier Flores, General Director for International Affairs)
Ontario Securities Commission, Ontario
(Mr. Grant Vingoe, Chief Executive Officer)
Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores, Panama
(Mrs. Maruquel Murgas de González, Superintendent)
Superintendencia de Valores Banco Central del Paraguay, Paraguay
(Sr. Rodrigo Sebastián Ruiz Morel, Superintendente de Valores)
Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores, Peru
(Mr. Juan Pichihua, Chairman)
Autorité des marchés financiers, Quebec
(Mr. Yves Ouellet, President and Chief Executive Officer)
Trinidad and Tobago Securities and Exchange Commission, Trinidad and Tobago
(Ms. Lystra Lucillio, Deputy Chief Executive Officer)
Turks & Caicos Islands Financial Services Commission, Turks & Caicos
(Mr. Niguel Streete, Managing Director / Mrs. Kenisha Bacchus, Senior Head Legal Counsel)
Commodity Futures Trading Commission, United States of America
(Mr. Mauricio Melara, Acting Director, Office of International Affairs / Ms. Andrea Musalem, Special Counsel, Office of International Affairs / Mr. Kevin Piccoli, Deputy Director, Office of International Affairs)
Securities and Exchange Commission, United States of America
(Mr. Mark T. Uyeda, Commissioner)
Banco Central del Uruguay, Uruguay
(Mr. Juan Pedro Cantera, Superintendent, Superintendence of Financial Services)
Associate Members (Non-Voting Members) (5)
Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten, Curaçao
(Mr. Richard Doornbosch, President)
Eastern Caribbean Securities Regulatory Commission, Eastern Caribbean Currency Union
(Ms. Alousia Faisal, Chief Executive Officer)
Securities and Commodities Market Registry, Guatemala
(Mr. Raúl Rolando Enríquez De León, Registrador)
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International
(Ms. Alison Harwood, Head of Capital Markets Unit)
International Monetary Fund, International
(Ms. Eija Holttinen, Senior Financial Sector Expert)
