Ante Žigman, PhD
President of the Board
Mr Ante Žigman, PhD, has been the President of the Board of the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (Hanfa) since 2018. The scope of Hanfa’s competence includes all financial non-banking services, from regulation and supervision of the capital market, insurance, investment and pension funds to virtual assets providers.
Mr. Žigman is a member of the Board of Supervisors, the Management Board and the Quality Control Committee of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and serves as Chair of EIOPA’s Risks and Financial Stability Steering Committee. Additionally, he is a member of the Board of Supervisors of European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA).
Prior to his appointment as the Head of Hanfa, he held a number of important functions, some of them being Assistant Minister of Finance for Macroeconomic Analysis and Planning, followed by Secretary of State at the Ministry of Finance. He also served as the Vice President of the Committee for Fiscal Policy of the Croatian Parliament, and member of the Economic and Financial Committee's Sub-Committee on EU Sovereign Debt Markets (ESDM). He spent a significant part of his career at the Croatian National Bank, where he worked at the Office of the Governor until being appointed to the current position. In February 2024, he was appointed for a second six-year term as the President of Hanfa Board.
He has written numerous scientific and expert papers in the field of fiscal policy and finance and is an active lecturer in the area of economics and finance.
