Samantha Barrass became Chief Executive Officer of the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission on 17th February 2014. She was previously an Executive Director at the Solicitors Regulatory Authority (SRA) in the UK.

Prior to the SRA, Samantha’s career included 10 years with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) in the UK where she undertook a variety of regulatory roles spanning the delivery of new regulatory approaches and policy at both a domestic and international level, the supervision of markets and exchanges, and was one of the first economists employed by the FSA to develop cost-benefit and other evidential techniques for new regulation.

Samantha previously began her working career at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand as an economist focusing on monetary policy strategy and economic reform.

Director of Regulatory Operations and Director of Audit Regulation

Director of Strategy and Planning

Director of Legal, Enforcement and Policy

Director of Operations

Head of Risk and Innovation

Head of Policy

Head of Financial Crime

Head of Prudential Supervision

Chief Information Officer

Head of Authorisations