Matti Leppälä is the Secretary General/CEO of PensionsEurope, since 2011. Matti is a current Vice-Chair and a former member, Chair and Vice-Chair of the Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group of EIOPA. He was a member of the European Commission’s High-Level Group of Experts on Pensions 2018 – 2019 and the Chair of the World Pension Alliance 2023 – 2024 and 2018 – 2019. Before joining PensionsEurope Matti worked 11 years for The Finnish Pension Alliance TELA. In the 1990’s Matti worked in collective bargaining, labor law and social policy. In 1986 he started his professional career at the Ministry of Justice in Finland. Matti has a LLM and an Executive MBA in Insurance and Financial services