Sabine Dittrich

Managing Director | Head of Government and Regulatory Policy and Relations, Europe at Barclays

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Sabine Dittrich joined Barclays in Paris in January 2026 as Head of Government and Regulatory Policy and Relations, Europe. She joined from Slaughter and May in London where she headed up the EU Financial Regulation Practice and was a senior member of its Financial Institutions and Sustainability Groups. Prior to this, Sabine spent 11 years at UBS in Zurich and London in various regulatory and legal positions, including as Head of EU Public Policy for UBS Group and Global Head of Regulatory Intelligence for UBS Asset Management. She started her career at Freshfields in Frankfurt as a German qualified lawyer. Sabine is an ex officio member of Barclays Europe’s Executive Committee.

Sabine is a member of the Consultative Working Group of ESMA’s Investment Management Standing Committee in Paris since June 2024 and previously was a member of the Board of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) in Brussels and of the Executive Committee of the Asset Management division of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) in London / Zurich. She is also co-author of the legal commentary on the German Safe Custody Act and holds a PhD in Law and an MBA from HEC Paris.