Constance Usherwood

Constance is part of the Prudential team and works across a number of areas including risk-weighted assets, non-performing loans, cross-border aspects of CRDV, and green finance. She also works on preparations for CRDVI/CRR3 and the prudential aspects of cross-cutting issues such as Capital Markets Union and Banking Union. Constance joined AFME from HSBC, where she was Prudential and Trade Policy Manager with responsibilities, amongst other things, for assessing upcoming international regulatory standards and assisting in formulating and advocating policy positions with high-level policymakers and European legislators. Prior to that, Constance worked as a Policy Expert at the EBA on promoting supervisory convergence in relation to CRR. Constance started her career in the European Parliament where she was Policy Advisor to UK MEP Sharon Bowles for three and a half years. Alongside managing the Brussels office, she had a broad range of responsibilities, including the drafting and negotiation of amendments to a wide range of post-crisis financial services legislation. She has a BA Hons in Modern Languages from Pembroke College Oxford and is a German speaker.