The European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association has appointed a new leader, selecting the head of Germany’s trade association to help it combat a wave of impending regulation in the coming years.

Dörte Höppner will replace longstanding leader Javier Echarri as EVCA's secretary general early next year, the body announced today. She will be the sixth leader of the organisation since it began in 1983 and is the first to have previously been a national trade body head.