How is the European Payments Council organised?

Without the involvement and technical knowledge of our members it would be impossible to develop and maintain the payment schemes that facilitate over 50 billion transactions each year or to formulate propositions to further harmonise payments.

About 400 payment professionals from across Europe who make up our 83 members and other stakeholders are the true mainspring of the work delivered by the EPC. The 20-person Secretariat team orchestrates and supports their work, which is then approved by the EPC governance bodies.

Further information about the EPC’s governance is available in the EPC By-laws and EPC Payment Scheme Management Rules.

Composition of the Payment Scheme Management Board

EPC Board

Board members are representatives of EPC members (except for the Chair, who may or may not be a representative of a member). Currently formed of 30 members, the Board acts as a collegial body involved in all the EPC’s major activities.
Composition of the EPC Board

Gijs Boudewijn

Chair of the European Payments Council

Gijs Boudewijn is the Chair of the European Payments Council (EPC) since 11 June 2025. Prior to this role, he served as General Manager of the Dutch Payments Association, following his tenure as Deputy General Manager beginning on 1 February 2014. Earlier in his career, he was responsible for payments and security at the Dutch Banking Association. Gijs has broad and deep experience in both domestic and international payment-related issues, including governance, regulation and innovation, competition law, and fraud prevention.
In addition to his current role as EPC Chair, he has also held the position of Chair of the EPC Legal Support Group. He was until recently also Vice-Chair of the Payment Systems Committee of the European Banking Federation and Vice-Chair of the European Card Payments Association. Gijs has been actively involved in regulatory initiatives such as PSD2 and the Regulatory Technical Standards of the European Banking Authority. He also represented the three ECSAs (EBF, EACB, ESBG), of the EPC SEPA Payment Account Access (SPAA) Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG).
Additionally, he served as a member of the European Commission’s Payment Systems Market Expert Group until his retirement on 1 June 2025.

Rita Camporeale

Vice Chair of the European Payments Council

Graduated in Political Science, she worked at the Italian National Central Bank (Banca d’Italia) and then at the European Central Bank from its creation in 1998 until 2002, with the responsibility of coordinating the Oversight Unit within the Payment Systems Policy Division. Her main responsibilities covered wholesale and retail systems, payment instruments, multi-currency foreign exchange settlement systems. In the areas of responsibility, she represented the ECB at meetings of the EU and G-10 central banks, in the contacts with banking supervisors, the EU Commission and national authorities as well as in the ECB’s market contact groups. Back in Italy, she joined the Italian Banking Association, where she works as Head of Payment Systems. Over the years she was Project Manager of ABI’s PSD, SEPA and PSD2 projects – coordinating and supporting Italian banks in their activities to ensure compliance with the PSD/PSD2, as well as migration to SEPA.
She represents Italian banks in various fora at national and European levels, and in particular in various EBF groups, EPC working groups and ERPB-related ones.
From January 2021, she is Chair of the Payment Systems Committee of the European Banking Federation.

Payment Scheme Management Board

Etienne Goosse

Scheme Management Board Chair

Etienne Goosse is Payment Scheme Management Board (PSMB) Chair from April 2025.

Previous to that he was the Director General of the European Payments Council (EPC) for over a decade. He has extensive professional experience across different sectors of the payments industry. He started his career with the Belgian central bank and held executive positions at eurocheque International, Europay International and MasterCard Europe. In his previous assignments, Etienne’s responsibilities included franchise management, legal and regulatory affairs, stakeholder management as well as finance and administration. He also has an extensive track record in managing governance as well as European and public affairs. He currently also serves as an independent member on Boards of other organisations in the payments area.

The EPC Staff

Our office is based in Brussels and has 20 team members from twelve countries.

Giorgio Andreoli

Director General

Giorgio Andreoli is the Director General of the European Payments Council (EPC) from 1 April 2023. He has extensive professional experience in digital financial solutions and innovative services, spanning multiple industries and executive roles.

Before joining the EPC, Mr. Andreoli worked at the European Central Bank (ECB) on the Digital Euro project, at Accenture as Managing Director and at Ericsson as Strategic Marketing Director for South-East Europe.

Mr. Andreoli holds a M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering and a Master in ICT & Data Networks.