Carsten Ostermann, LL.M.

Federal Ministry of Finance, Legal Expert

Read law at the Universities of Marburg and Bielefeld, completing the 1st State Exam in Law in 1997. Fully qualified as a lawyer in Germany after completing the 2nd State Exam in Berlin in the year 2000. He also holds the degree of LL.M. in International Law from the University of Glasgow and is qualified as a solicitor under the rules of the Law Society of England & Wales.

Ostermann worked as an adviser to an MP of the German Bundestag as well as a consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers in London in the area of employee share schemes. He joined BaFin in 2004 as an expert in the international department regarding securities supervision. There, he worked for example in the CESR Expert Groups advising the European Commission on Level 2 implementing measures for the Markets in Financial Instruments and the Transparency Directive. He has been working as a short-time expert on the part of the twinning project drafting legislation with respect to the Transparency Directive. Currently, he is seconded to the Federal Ministry of Finance dealing with the national and European aspects of securities and exchange legislation and supervision.