The Committee on Financial Markets promotes efficient, open, stable and sound financial systems, based on high levels of transparency, confidence, and integrity to contribute to sustainable and inclusive economies. It focuses on surveillance of financial developments and in-depth analysis of the implications of evolving financial structures on economic growth and market stability, and policy dialogue, including with delegates from OECD countries and beyond, and between public and private sector participants through financial roundtables. The Committee also promotes good practices through standards, including the Framework for Effective and Efficient Financial Regulation.

The current Chair of the Financial Markets Committee is Aerdt Houben, Director of the European Banks Supervision at De Nederlandsche Bank.

The main objective of the Competition Committee is to protect and promote competition as an organising principle of modern economies, based on the knowledge that vigorous market competition boosts growth and employment and makes economies more flexible and innovative. The Committee works to enhance the effectiveness of competition law enforcement, through the development of best practices and the promotion of co-operation among competition authorities globally. It helps countries review their competition policy frameworks and implement pro-competitive economic reform, including in specific sectors. The Committee seeks to support sound domestic competition policies and foster policy convergence internationally to avoid inefficiencies and potential conflicts resulting from different competition standards.

The current Chair of the Competition Committee is Frédéric Jenny, Emeritus Professor of Economics at ESSEC.

The Insurance and Private Pensions Committee works to promote fair, efficient, open and stable, market-oriented insurance markets and pension systems. These systems must be based on high levels of transparency, trust and integrity. The Committee monitors the development of the insurance and private pension markets, the impact of large global shifts like demographic change, digital technologies and climate change on these markets, and how they can best support sustainable development. It focuses on policy dialogue and collecting statistics, developing analysis, recommendations and guidelines as well as mechanisms to promote implementation.

The current Chair of the Insurance and Private Pensions Committee is Yoshihiro Kawai, Advisor to the Commissioner, Japan Financial Services Agency.

The Investment Committee is responsible for the OECD instruments in the field of international investment. It oversees implementation of the OECD Declaration and Decisions on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises, including the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct, the Policy Framework of Investment (PFI) and the Recommendation and Policy Toolkit on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Qualities, the Benchmark Definition on International Investment Statistics, and is the guardian of the Codes of Liberalisation of Capital Movements and Current Invisible Operations.

The Committee promotes a holistic policy approach to attract more and better-quality investment, better and safer FDI, fosters international co-operation in these fields, and promotes better understanding of the policy issues at stake.

The Committee includes the Working Party on Responsible Business Conduct, which promotes Responsible Business Conduct worldwide by helping governments design and implement policies based on the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises on Responsible Business Conduct. The Working Party also provides guidance to business on how to implement due diligence and advocates strengthening access to remedy through a global network of National Contact Points for Responsible Business Conduct.

The current Chair of the Investment Committee is Rupert Schlegelmilch, Germany, former Director, European Commission, DG Trade.

The OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions is responsible for monitoring the implementation and enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the 2021 Recommendation on Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Bribery in International Business Transactions and related instruments, through a peer review monitoring system that focuses on the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution and sanction of the bribery of foreign public officials in international business transactions. Made up of representatives from the 46 countries, Parties to the Convention, the Working Group meets four times per year in Paris and publishes all of its country monitoring reports online.

The current interim Chair of the Working Group on Bribery is Chris Basiurski of the United Kingdom.