Professor emeritus Dr René Smits is a consultant on EMU law, banking regulation and sustainable finance. He was a part-time professor of the law of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) at the University of Amsterdam (2001-2020), where he most recently taught a course on central banks and their accountability in the Master Law & Finance (2019-2024). He was a Member of the Administrative Board of Review (ABoR), the independent review panel for the ECB's supervisory decisions (2014-2024). He is an Expert on the Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance (P.R.I.M.E. Finance). He manages an on-line overview of European court proceedings concerning the banking union and the Single Rulebook: https://ebi-europa.eu/publications/eu-cases-or-jurisprudence/.
Professor emeritus Smits has been the General Counsel of the Netherlands Central Bank (DNB), where he worked for 24 years. From 2001 until 2014, he worked at the NMa (Netherlands Competition Authority) and its successor ACM (Authority for Consumers & Markets) in multiple legal capacities. From 2013-2022, he has been an assessor in the Belgian Competition Authority's Competition College. He has published extensively on EMU and banking regulation-related topics, as well as on sustainable finance and financial sanctions.