STARLA GRIFFIN
Managing
Director - Europe
Starla Griffin is EMTA's Managing Director for Europe and is based in London. She is currently responsible for addressing issues of concern to EMTA’s European-based members and supervising EMTA’s membership activities.
Starla joined EMTA in New York in 1996, and through 2001, was primarily responsible for EMTA’s work in FX and Derivatives matters, including overseeing EMTA’s participation in the joint project with ISDA and the Foreign Exchange Committee to draft the 1998 FX and Currency Option Definitions, and coordinating the development of back-up fixing rate mechanisms for Russia, Argentina and Brazil, with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. Starla was also responsible for EMTA’s local markets work in Central Europe and Russia. She became Managing Director for Europe in 1999.
Prior to joining EMTA, Starla was an associate on the International Finance team at the law firm of Shearman & Sterling in New York and Paris. She received her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC, and her BA in International Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, GA. As a Rotary Scholar, Starla studied European Community Law at the University of Bologna in Italy, and she lived for one year in Hitachi, Japan, as an English teacher employed by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Starla has also been a visiting instructor, teaching Capital and Securities Markets Regulation, at the International Development Law Organization in Rome since 1996. She is fluent in French and Italian and is learning Russian.
Starla recently completed a book called Girl, 13, which explores the lives of 13-year old girls living in different countries throughout the world. The book, which features more than 30 girls from as many countries, provides a snapshot of the lives of the first generation to grow up after the end of the Cold War and in the midst of the Information Age.