SRB welcomes new Board Members and Vice-Chair

• Miguel Carcaño Saenz De Cenzano to become new SRB Vice-Chair 

• Slavka Eley and Radek Urban to join SRB as new Board Members 

The Single Resolution Board (SRB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Miguel Carcaño Saenz De Cenzano as Vice-Chair and Slavka Eley and Radek Urban as Members of the Board. They will take up their duties on 1 April 2025. These appointments were approved by the European Parliament on 11 March 2025 and adopted by the Council of the European Union on 31 March 2025.

Welcoming the appointments, SRB Chair Dominique Laboureix said: “Our new Vice-Chair and Board Members will bring fresh perspectives and I am confident that the SRB will benefit from their expertise – especially in these uncertain times. I would also like to thank the outgoing Vice-Chair Jan Reinder De Carpentier and Board Members Pedro Machado and Jesús Saurina for all their work and achievements over the past five years.”

Miguel Carcaño Saenz De Cenzano said: “I am delighted to become Vice-Chair of the SRB. Preserving financial stability and protecting the taxpayer through orderly resolution is a vital part of our economic success in Europe. I relish this new challenge and my new responsibilities."

Slavka Eley said: “I am honoured to join the SRB as a Board Member and to contribute my experience to its vital mission. Effective resolution planning and crisis preparedness are essential to the SRB’s role in contributing to the integration of the Banking Union.”

Radek Urban said: “As we enter uncertain political and economic times, we must continue to ensure that our banking resolution framework is robust and workable, to ensure resolution plays its part in ensuring stability.”

About the appointees

Miguel Carcaño Saenz De Cenzano was previously the Head of the Single Resolution Fund Unit at the SRB, and was responsible for building up the Fund as an important tool for financial stability. Before joining the SRB in 2015, Mr Carcaño Saenz De Cenzano was Head of Treasury at FROB, the Spanish National Resolution Authority, where he was dealing with the resolution assets that came from the Spanish resolved banks. Mr Carcaño Saenz De Cenzano is a Spanish national who graduated in Economics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and holds a Master in Business and Administration from ICADE Business School.

Slavka Eley has extensive experience in financial regulation and banking supervision. She joined the European Banking Authority in 2013, where she led the Supervisory Convergence Unit, overseeing the development of a common EU banking supervisory framework and fostering supervisory cooperation. From 2018, she led the Head of Banking Markets, Innovation, and Products Unit, focusing on financial innovation, digital finance, the Capital Markets Union, and sustainable finance. Prior to her time at the EBA, Ms. Eley worked for over a decade at the National Bank of Slovakia, holding several management positions in banking supervision and policy development. Most recently, she was part of the European Labour Authority, where she headed the Governance and Coordination Unit. A Slovak national, Ms. Eley holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the City University of Seattle and a Master’s degree in Mathematics and Physics from Comenius University in Bratislava.

Radek Urban joined the SRB after having served as Executive Director of Markets and Resolution in the Czech National Bank. In 2014, he was tasked with building the Resolution Directorate and the Financial Markets Guarantee System, part of the safety net that oversees the Deposit Guarantee Fund and the National Resolution Fund. Previously, he was Deputy Finance Minister responsible for financial markets legislation. Mr. Urban also has extensive financial markets experience, having worked for a large European bank and in the financial markets directorate of the Czech National Bank. Mr. Urban is a Czech national who graduated from the Prague School of Economics.