Corporate governance

Born in Madrid in 1954. She holds a Degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Master's in Community Law from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium).

She began her professional career in 1979 in the Armero law firm, which subsequently became part of Uría Menéndez in 1999, where she remained as a partner in the commercial department and was a member of the Board of Directors until 2009.

From 2009 to 2021 she was an independent director at Mutua Madrileña and some of the group’s subsidiaries, as well as a member of its Investment Committee and its Auditing and Compliance Committee. Over this same period she was also Deputy Chairwoman of the Mutua Madrileña Foundation.

From 2012 to 2022 she was an independent director at Cemex Latam Holding, S.A., a listed company on the Colombia Stock Exchange, member and Chair of its Auditing Committee, its Appointments and Remuneration Committee and its Corporate Governance Committee.

She also works as an arbitrator at Madrid’s Court of Arbitration, the Spanish Court of Arbitration and the Madrid Bar Association’s Court of Arbitration, specialising in the area of Corporate Arbitration. She is a member of the Community of Madrid’s Council of Bar Associations and Chair of its Resources Committee. She is Secretary of the National Board and National Executive Committee of the Spanish Breast Cancer Association (AECC) and Chair of its Legal Regulation Committee, as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the ICAM-Cortina Foundation.

She is also professor of M&A and Corporate Governance on postgraduate courses at IE Law School, and Joint Chair of the Company Law and Corporate Governance Division of the Madrid Bar Association