Jean-Paul Servais is the chair of the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA).

Internationally, he holds mandates as vice chair of the IOSCO Board, as well as chair of the IOSCO European Regional Committee, the Audit Committee of IOSCO-OICV and IFRS Foundation Monitoring Board.

He is also a board member of several international supervisory bodies for the financial sector: ESMA, ESRB, and the College of Euronext Regulators. Within ESMA, he chairs the Financial Innovation Standing Committee (FISC).

He obtained a Master of Law (Master en droit) from the ULB and a Master of Economics in Business Management (Master in de economie, bedrijfskunde) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).