Anke Klein is Managing Director and Head of the Investment Company Institute’s Brussels Office. Before joining ICI, Klein worked as a consultant. Prior to that, she served as an Alderperson (Deputy Mayor) of the City of Utrecht. Klein has almost 20 years of experience in financial services policy. She served as Financial Attaché at the Kingdom of The Netherlands to the EU. During the Dutch Presidency of the Council, she led negotiations on behalf of the (back then) 28 Member States with the European Parliament and the European Commission on Financial Services. After moving to Amsterdam, she worked as Programme Manager, Innovation & FinTech at the Dutch Central Bank (DNB), in close cooperation with the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets and the European Central Bank. She started her career at the Dutch Ministry of Finance. Klein gained active political experience as Alderperson and previously as a candidate for the European Parliament. She studied International and European Law in Leiden and Berlin.