Frank Elderson is a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank, he is co-Chair of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Risks of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, he was the first Chair of the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System, and he is one of the 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders in Business 2024, as chosen by Time Magazine.
Mr Elderson previously served as Executive Director of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). At DNB he held several senior positions before joining its Governing Board in 2011. Before joining DNB in 1999, Mr Elderson worked as a lawyer specialising in EU competition law. Throughout his career, he has stressed the importance of climate and environment related considerations for the financial sector and for supervisors and central banks.
He founded and chaired the Dutch Platform for Sustainable Finance from 2016 to 2020. Mr Elderson graduated in Dutch law at the University of Amsterdam in 1994 and obtained an LL.M. Degree at Columbia Law School, New York, in 1995. He also studied various courses at the University of Zaragoza, Spain