EVCA appoints new public affairs director

Collins will join EVCA at the beginning of April. He currently works at Citibank as managing director of European government affairs – he joined the bank in 2010. Prior to this he was financial counsellor and head of the Ecofin section at the UK Permanent Representation in Brussels for four years. Collins also spent five years at HM Treasury in London.

At EVCA, Collins will direct the association's political advocacy and regulatory affairs strategy. He will be responsible for all policy areas affecting the European private equity and venture capital industry, and will head EVCA's policy department.

"Michael will prove invaluable to our work on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, the European Venture Capital Funds Regulation, the IORP Directive and Solvency II, to name but a few," EVCA chairman Vincenzo Morelli said in a statement. "He will continue our constructive engagement with policymakers, to ensure that private equity, as a long-term asset class that provides benefits to investors, companies and employees, is able to thrive in Europe."

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