Ms. Báñez García holds a combined degree in Law and Economic and Business Sciences from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas -ICADE E-3- and continued her academic education with a postgraduate degree in Company Administration from the University of Harvard, Boston, MA, likewise completing the Public Management Leadership Programme at the IESE Business School. She was Minister of Employment and Social Security in the Spanish government from December 2011 to June 2018, and provisional Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality from August to November 2016. Also in the public area, she was member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies for Huelva (2009-2019), holding important responsibilities in the economic area of the Popular Parliamentary Group, as well as the position of chairperson of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Lower Chamber (2018-2019). Previously, from November 1997 to June 2000, she was a member of the Board of Directors of Radio Televisión de Andalucía. She began her professional life in the private sector as head of Corporate Strategy and Development of her family’s company group (1993-1997) and returned to private activity as a business consultant and advisor in November 2019. She has extensive international experience, having represented Spain on the EPSCO Council, at the G-20, at the Ibero-American Summits and at meetings of the OECD and ILO, as well as at international employment forums. Ms Báñez is currently President of the CEOE Foundation. She was appointed director of the Company by co-option on 20 December 2019, and re-elected at the Ordinary General Shareholders' Meeting held in 2020 and 2024.