The Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) has appointed Patrick Amis as Director General in the Directorate General Microprudential Supervision III.

Mr Amis, 48, is currently Deputy Director General in the Directorate General Microprudential Supervision I. He will take up his new role on 1 August 2018. He will succeed Jukka Vesala, who left the ECB earlier this year.

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