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WESTERBARKEY Natalie, Fidelity International SA
WESTERBARKEY Natalie
Individual member
  • Certified Director
  • Contact Details

    natalie@westerbarkey.net

    Biography

    Natalie Westerbarkey is Director and Head of EU Public Policy at Fidelity International based in Luxembourg and Brussels. She joined Fidelity in November 2017 and has about 20 years of experience in financial services. In August 2018 she was appointed as Board Director and in September 2020 as Board Chairman of FIL (Luxembourg) S.A. until December 2023. She is a Deutsche Börse certified Board Director and Luxembourg ILA Independent Director member.

    Her responsibilities cover public policies relevant to the asset management industry, engagement with clients, policy makers, industry and at conferences. She actively represents Fidelity in associations, such as EFAMA where she was appointed Vice-Chair of the Investor Education Platform since September 2018 and Chair since September 2022. Policy areas of focus include global fund distribution, ESG/sustainable finance, EU Recovery Fund and Green Deal as well as related international policy developments especially in the US and UK.

    She joined Fidelity from ADIA, the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and was based in the Middle East for 3 years. She held responsibilities across regulatory risk, compliance and public policy activities and lead a project assessing the impact of climate change on investments across asset classes chaired by the CIO. Prior she was Director at Citigroup in London working for almost 9 years across roles in Government Affairs, Client & Sales Management and the Investor Business. Before, she worked at Clifford Chance in London as a lawyer, at the European Commission in Brussels and as a lawyer in Germany.

    Ms Westerbarkey qualified as a judge in Germany. She completed an Executive MBA with distinction with focus on asset management and distribution in EU/Asian markets at Bayes (former Cass) Business School in London in 2011. She received an award as best student for the LLM in International Investment, Banking and Trade Law at Oxford Brookes University in 2005. She holds a certificate from Yale School of Management/EDHEC in investment management & risk from 2018/2019, an International Compliance Officer Certificate from CLL in 2015, and completed management trainings held by Harvard Business School and INSEAD Business School. She was born and raised in Latin America.