Josée Weydert is the managing partner of NautaDutilh Luxembourg, where she heads the Luxembourg Banking & Finance practice. Josée specialises in financing, securitisation, (debt and equity) capital markets and financial regulatory matters.
Josée is a trusted advisor of numerous financial institutions, financial professionals and corporate groups. Due to her extensive experience working in the capital markets and structured finance departments at a well-known Luxembourg bank, she has particularly strong expertise in the banking and capital markets fields.
With more than 25 years of legal experience, Josée enjoys high recognition among both market players and clients. In 2020, Josée was named a Leading Expert in Banking & Finance Law in Luxembourg by Chambers Europe and as a Women Leader by the IFLR1000. Chambers notes that she has “profound knowledge of the products and services marketed in Luxembourg’s financial market and excellent working relationships with the government and regulators” and that clients value her “depth of expertise and long-standing experience in the banking industry”.
Josée and her team contribute regularly to various publications, including The Luxembourg Banking & Finance Comparative Guide (The Legal 500, 2019) and an article entitled “PSD2 Implementation in the Grand Duchy – Six Months Later” (ILO, 2019).
Josée obtained her law degree from the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg (1992) and subsequently completed the two-year programme for young banking executives at the Luxembourg Training Institute for Banking (1995). She regularly speaks at conferences on topics relating to the financial sector.
Josée was admitted to the Luxembourg Bar in 1993.
She is a Luxembourg native and is fluent in English, French, German and Luxembourgish.
Cindy Tereba was born in 1979 in Luxembourg. She left her home country in 1998 to pursue her studies in fine arts and literature in London, Düsseldorf and Paris and subsequently pursued an international career. She started her professional path off at the Institut Français in Düsseldorf before she ventured into the business world, working for a German e-commerce startup. In 2008 she left Europe to live and work in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. Here she became the Business Development Services Manager of the German-Emirati Chamber of Commerce supporting German countries to enter the GCC countries (except Saudi-Arabia and Yemen).
Four years later she moved to Berlin where she first worked for the Luxembourgish economy, setting up the first foreign office of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce abroad and founding the Business Club Luxembourg, a business network of 80 Luxembourgish and German companies. Only recently she returned to Luxembourg to take up the post of Director International Affairs at the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce.
He studied law at the University of Strasbourg and political science at Paris II University. After his studies, he joined the Luxembourg civil service, firstly in the Ministry of Defence, then in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he has served since 1992. He has completed several foreign missions, including Brussels (Permanent Representations to NATO and to the European Union), Washington and Lisbon. Since 2020, he is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Grand Duchy Luxembourg to the Republic of Poland. He is also accredited to the Republic of Latvia and the Republic of Lithuania.
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Poland to Luxembourg.
Piotr Wojtczak has been working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1994. He specialises in European affairs.
He has also held managerial positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Deputy Director of the Europe Department, Director General of the External Service and Director of Diplomatic Protocol.
In 1999, he was Coordinator of EU accession negotiations in the field of Justice and Home Affairs. In 2006-2007 he held the position of Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the EU – Ambassador – Chargé d’affaires. He also worked at the Polish Embassy in Brussels (2004 – Chargé d’affaires; 2008 – Consul General of the Consular Service of the Polish Embassy).
Piotr Wojtczak graduated in Political Science and Roman Philology at the University of Marie Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin. He is also a graduate of the National School of Public Administration. He is fluent in French, English and Italian.