André Laboul

André Laboul is the Deputy Director of the OECD’s Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (DAF), which covers issues related to anti-corruption, competition, corporate affairs, finance and investment. One of his main tasks includes the coordination of OECD investment related and other DAF contributions to G20 finance track. Mr Laboul is also Secretary General of the International Organisation of Pensions Supervisors (IOPS), Chairman of the International Network on Financial Education (INFE), Head of FinCoNet Secretariat and Managing Editor of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, edited by Cambridge University Press. He is also an expert to various bodies. Mr Laboul was formerly Counsellor of DAF and Head of DAF’s Financial Affairs Division, where he covered financial markets, private insurance, private pensions, institutional investors, debt management, financial education and financial consumer protection issues. Mr Laboul wrote the first major international studies on bank/insurance and on regulation of private pensions and was instrumental in the development of various major international policy projects by the OECD, including on financing of long-term investment by institutional investors, financial education, financial consumer protection, terrorism insurance and financial management of catastrophic risks. Before joining the OECD, he worked in Belgium at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), the Centre for Law and Economic Research (CRIDE) and the Prime Minister Services for Science Policy. Mr Laboul is both an Economist and a Lawyer, with degrees from the universities of Liège and Louvain-La-Neuve.