Eric Salomons leads the Product Development team for the Dubai Financial Market (DFM). He took on this role in July 2022 to further expand the diversification of asset classes traded and cleared on DFM and NASDAQ Dubai. Previously, he was leading the DFSA Markets Division and a member of the DFSA’s Executive Committee.

He has developed his career in derivatives and securities markets over the past 25 years and has been involved in derivatives arbitrage, risk management and regulation. Eric served as a member of the IOSCO Committee for Secondary Markets, as well as its Derivatives Committee, and was a senior adviser to emerging markets’ exchanges in Africa and Asia. Eric has further gained wide ranging and valuable experience of exchange operations, clearing houses and settlement systems as project manager for licensing and supervision of markets in Europe and the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Prior to joining the DFSA, Eric was responsible for exchange regulation and was a member of the Euronext College of Regulators at The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM).

He started and developed the first 10 years of his career as a derivatives market maker on the Euronext exchange floor and Eurex for Amsterdam Option Traders (AOT).