EIOPA reappoints Ante Žigman to its Management Board
The President of the Board of the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (Hanfa), Ante Žigman, has been reappointed as a member of the Management Board of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA). This is his second term in this important European authority, following his first term of two and a half years.
EIOPA’s Management Board is chaired by Petra Hielkema, and the other six members are representatives of national regulators. Mr Žigman's term begins on 23 December 2025, while Teija Korpiaho from Finland has also secured the necessary votes for a term extension beginning on 1 January 2026. The other members of EIOPA’s Management Board are Julia Wiens from Germany, Gita Salden from the Netherlands, Evelyne Massé from France, and Koppány Nagy from Hungary.
EIOPA is one of the three European Supervisory Authorities, along with ESMA and the EBA, and is an independent advisory body to the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the European Union. It oversees the national implementation of European financial regulations, advises national regulators and monitors their supervisory activities.
Through its work, EIOPA contributes to the strong, effective, and consistent supervisory system in Europe, protecting insured persons and members of pension schemes. It achieves its priority objectives of ensuring consumer protection and preserving financial stability through six strategic areas: by integrating sustainable finance considerations across all areas of its work; by supporting the consumers, the market and the supervisory community through digital transformation; by enhancing the quality and effectiveness of supervision; by ensuring technically sound prudential and conduct of business policy; by identifying, assessing, monitoring and reporting on risks to financial stability and conduct of business, and promoting preventative policies and mitigating actions; and by ensuring good governance, agile organisation, cost effective resource management and a strong corporate culture.
Analysing market developments and taking into account all types of risks, EIOPA, among other things, suggests to the European Commission the adoption of new policies and guidelines regarding changes to the existing practices of insurance and pension companies.
