Jasper Aerts

Jasper Aerts is on temporary leave from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and works at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Before that, he was the Head of Legal and Procurement of the ESM, co-responsible for the daily management of the Legal and Procurement Department. Jasper joined the ESM in September 2012 as Team Lead and Practice Area Leader for the Lending and Banking team within Legal and responsible for all legal aspects of the financial assistance operations of the ESM and the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).

Before joining the ESM, Jasper worked as a principal finance lawyer and manager of several dedicated legal transaction teams within the Commercial Banking division of ING Bank in Amsterdam, developing his current expertise in public and private sector international finance transactions. Earlier, Jasper worked as an insolvency and restructuring lawyer at a mid-sized boutique law firm in Amsterdam.

Jasper studied Dutch law at Maastricht University and did a post-graduate in Finance and Security Law at the Grotius Academy of the University Nijmegen. He is currently finalising his EU Law Master's at King's College in London.