Corporate governance

Born in Puente Genil (Cordoba) in 1949. He holds a degree in Technical Architecture from the University of Seville. He has completed several courses and specialization programs (at the Instituto de Empresa [Business Institute], the Executive Management Program for Congressmen at Spain’s Advanced Center for Defense Studies [CESEDEN, initials in Spanish], the 26th National Defense Course and two Specialized Courses on national defense strategy).

He is the co-author of several publications and articles and has been a guest speaker at conferences related to the processes of globalization and off-shoring, the competitiveness of Industry, the Aerospace Sector, the transformation of the Energy Sector, technological convergence with Europe and the incorporation into the National Defense Directives of new sectors, such as energy.

Since 2013 until 2019 he held the position of member of the Advisory Board of Caixabank in Andalusia. Currently, and since 2012 he is Chairmanship´s Senior Adviser at KPMG.

For more than fifteen years, he worked in companies in different fields such as Industry, Architecture and Urban Development.

During the period 1986-2011, he was a member of Spain’s Congress for the constituency of Seville. He has been a member of several parliamentary committees: the Public Works Committee, the Industry, Tourism and Trade Committee, and the Committees of Energy, Defense, the Economy, the All-Party Committee for the European Union and the All-Party Committee of Scientific Research and Technological Development, among others.

During the last two legislatures (2004-2011) he was President of the Committee on Industry, Tourism and Trade, President of the Spanish Space Group at the biannual Interparliamentary Conferences which, with the participation of the European Space Agency (ESA), were held in Madrid, Paris, Brussels and Rome. He has also held the post of Rapporteur in charge of relations with Spain’s Nuclear Safety Council.