Daniela Russo is currently Senior Adviser to the Executive Board of the European Central bank, based in Frankfurt am Main, after having been the Director General of the Payments and Market Infrastructure Directorate General for 5 years and she has been an ECB Senior Manager for more than 20 years.

She chaired or participated in several working groups or committees working in the field of payment and settlement systems, both at European and global level. Some of these groups involve only central banks (e.g. PSSC, CPSS, CLS and SWIFT Oversight). Other groups involve central banks and securities regulators (ESCB-CESR, CPSS-IOSCO, T2-S Oversight and Derivatives Regulators Forum). Other groups also involve participation of the industry (COGEPS, COGESI, CESAME, MOC, SEPA High Level Group and EPC).

She has been involved in FSAP (e.g. US and Japan), implementation monitoring assessments (E.g. Brazil and Turkey) and technical assistance (e.g. Switzerland, Rwanda, and South Africa).

She has been the co-chair of the CPMI-IOSCO Policy Standing Group who released a number of important reports in the field of CCP recovery and resilience (Guidance on resilience, Guidance on recovery, Framework for supervisory stress testing, Report on Effective Practices for Auctions, Supervisory Stress Testing and Client Clearing). She currently chairs the PSG Group on Stablecoins and the Group of Data Expert (DEG) of the FSB that is working on definition and implementation of for repomarkets database that would support financial stability needs.

She is also member of many international groups (such as the CPMI, the CPMI-IOSCO Steering Group, the FSB-CPMI-IOSCO fmi-CBCM – dealing with recovery and resolution issues – the IOSCO group on deference, the CPMI-IOSCO-BCBS Group on Margins and at European level the Working Group on CCPs and the Working Group on Interdependencies of the European Systemic Risk Board. (ESRB).