David Wright
Director, Directorate - Financial Markets
Internal Market, EU Commission

As Director for Financial Markets in the Internal Market Directorate General in the Commission, David's objective is to build an integrated European capital market by 2005, in line with the Lisbon European Council.

He has worked for 25 years in the Commission, starting with statistics/oil data during second oil crises and since then in the areas of Industry, Internal Market, Trade, Energy, Financial Markets, and Research. He was also an adviser in President Delors' Forward Studies Unit (1989-1992), a Member of the Cabinet of Sir Leon Brittan Q.C, and adviser to Jacques Santer, President of the European Commission (1995-1999).