BIOGRAPHY

At the GLEIF, Ricco Dun is mainly responsible for the connections between the world of the business registers and the new world of the Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI’s). It is important that these worlds understand each other and cooperate. There are already 6 national business registers (becoming) active as a LEI issuing organization.

He is also the Chairman of the Board of the European Business Register (EBR). EBR is the cooperation between business registers from 26 European countries in which they facilitate the exchange of business register information between themselves and for their customers.

He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Corporate Registers Forum (CRF). Within the European Commerce Registers’ Forum (ECRF), he has been a member of the Working Group BR2BR (on the interconnection of business registers) and the auditor of the financials.

He has worked for many years as the Manager of the Business Register of The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce. Before that, he has had several legal and sales & marketing functions, including e.g. the development of all internet based activities for the dissemination of information from the business register.

He has represented the Netherlands during the negotiations on the EU Directive on the interconnection of business registers in the European Council Working Party and during the discussions on the implementation of the Directive in the Company Law Expert Group for the Business Registers Interconnection System (CLEG-BRIS) of the European Commission.