Curriculum Vitae

She is a Senior Advisor at “Ernst & Young España, S.A.” for sustainability issues and the agri-food sector. She is an independent director of “Avanza Previsión Compañía de Seguros, S.A.” and member of its Audit Committee. Also, she is a visiting professor of the Master in Sustainability of Universidad de Navarra.

• Degree in Agricultural Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid and degree in Law from the University of Valladolid.
• She has a Master’s degree in European Communities from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, as well as a Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of California (Davis).
• She also participated in the Global Senior Management Programme of the Instituto de Empresa and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
• Furthermore, she participated in the High-Level Business Energy, organised by the Club Español de la Energía.

• She has been an independent director of the group’s country subholding company in Brazil, “Neoenergia, S.A.” and a member of its Finance, Audit, Remuneration and Succession committees, as well as chair of the Sustainability Committee.
• She has been the Director of Strategic Planning at the chemical fertiliser company “Fertiberia, S.A.”, a member of the board of the Algerian fertiliser manufacturing company “Fertial SPA” and of “Sociedad Estatal de Infraestructuras Agrarias del Norte, S.A.”, as well as a member of the Governing Board of the Spanish Ports System (Puertos del Estado). She has also been an independent director of “Primafrío, S.L.”, chair of its Innovation and Sustainability Committee, and member of its Audit Committee.

• She was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Environment of the Spanish Government between 2014 and 2018 and, prior to that, Secretary General for Agriculture and Food, during which time she participated in and led numerous complex European negotiations.
• In particular, as Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Environment, she was responsible for the national climate change policy and for international negotiations in this field, including her participation in several United Nations Climate Summits, including the Paris Summit in December 2015.
• In that stage, as responsible for water policy, the hydrological planning culminated with the approval of basin hydrological plans under the jurisdiction of the General State Administration -with the greatest consensus ever achieved in the National Water Council-, putting Spain up to date on its European water planning obligations. The first flood risk management plans were approved, the first fluvial nature reserves were created, Plan CRECE was launched to comply with the European Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive and important investments in hydraulic infrastructure were resumed.
• She was vice-chair of the high-level Inter-Ministerial Working Group on the 2030 Agenda.