Maarten Cleppe

Biography

Maarten Cleppe is Director Legal at Crelan. He joined Crelan through the acquisition of AXA Bank where he had been heading the Legal Department since 2016. Before joining AXA he was legal counsel first at Dexia (2004-2012) and later at ING (2012-2015) in support of the respective financial markets departments.

Maarten joined the Financial Law Institute as an assistant in 2014, where he lectures on financial derivatives and contract drafting.

He graduated from law school in July 2002 and subsequently obtained a postgraduate degree in the Complementary Studies in Economics and Business Administration (2003), both at Ghent University, an LL.M. Master in Banking and Finance Law at University College London (2004) and a postgraduate degree in Fiscal Sciences at the Brugge Business School (2007).