Jasper Aerts
Bio
Jasper Aerts is head of Legal and Procurement at European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in Luxembourg and is co-responsible for the daily management of the Legal and Procurement Department, following a temporary leave from the ESM to work at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He joined the ESM in September 2012 as team lead and practice area leader for the Lending and Banking team within Legal and was responsible for all legal aspects of the financial assistance operations of the ESM and the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). Before joining the ESM, Mr. Aerts worked as a principal finance lawyer and manager of several dedicated legal transaction teams within the Commercial Banking division of ING Bank in Amsterdam, where he developed his current expertise in public- and private-sector international finance transactions. Earlier, he worked as an insolvency and restructuring lawyer at a mid-sized boutique law firm in Amsterdam. Mr. Aerts studied Dutch law at Maastricht University and did a post-graduate in Finance and Securities Law at the Grotius Academy of the University Nijmegen. In December 2021, he concluded his EU Law Master’s, with distinction, at King’s College in London.