Catherine Langlais

Catherine Langlais is an Independent Non-Executive Director at OSTC, a derivatives trading and education business in the UK, since May 2020.

She was previously, until her retirement in January 2020, the General Counsel and Executive Legal Director of Euronext group (combining the Euronext exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, and Portugal).

After a few years in a French credit institution, she had joined Matif SA, the French Derivatives Exchange, in 1990 as Head of Legal Department. Following Matif merger with the Paris Securities ‘Exchange at the end of the 1990s, she was actively involved in the creation of Euronext group in 2000 and its listing in Paris. She was thereafter involved in the merger with the New York Stock Exchange in 2007 to form NYSE Euronext, and after its acquisition by ICE in 2013, in the subsequent separation and IPO of Euronext in 2014, followed by the enlargement to Dublin and Oslo exchanges. Her responsibilities within the Euronext Group included supervising all legal and regulatory matters, coordinating the interactions with the Euronext College of Regulators, and advising the Managing and Supervisory Boards.

She graduated from the Paris XI-Sceaux University in International Law and from the Paris IV-Sorbonne University in Anglo-American civilization and literature. Mrs Langlais has been a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur since 2009.