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Before joining Aena he held various executive positions in the public and private sector. He began his professional career as an economic analysis consultant at Solchaga, Recio & Asociados, where he worked from September 1999 to May 2004.

In the public business sector, he was General Manager for the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) from July 2004 to May 2010, and CEO for Ingeniería de Sistemas para la Defensa de España (ISDEFE) from May 2010 to February 2012. He was Chairman of the European Space Agency Board (ESA) from July 2008 to June 2010.

In the private sector, his roles include Banco Sabadell Director of Equity and Prudential Management from June 2016 to October 2017, and Director of Prudential Regulation and Public Policy from November 2017 to July 2018. Furthermore, he was a member of parliament and spokesman for the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Government of Catalonia from December 2012 to October 2015.

In academia, he was an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Carlos III University in Madrid. He has been Chairman and CEO of the Board of Directors of Aena SME, S.A. since 16 July 2018 and President of the Executive Committee. He was re-elected at the Annual General Meeting on 31 March 2022. Additionally, since 24 July 2018, he is President of Aena Desarrollo Internacional S.M.E, S.A .

Assistant professor of Mathematics at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Aeronáuticos (Higher Technical School of Aeronautical Engineers) (1975-1978), assistant professor (1978), associate professor (1978-1979) and professor (1980-2016) of Econometrics and Statistical Methods at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the Complutense University of Madrid.

First Vice-Chancellor of the Complutense University of Madrid (1980-1981) and Head of the Quantitative Economics Department since its creation and over several periods of time. On the Board of Trustees of various Foundations. King of Spain’s Economics Prize, in its 14th edition (2012). Diplom Ingenieur at Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) (1970-1974).

General Manager of Expansion and General Manager of Planning and Investments at the Banco Hipotecario de España (Spanish Mortgage Bank) (1981-1983). Executive Chairman of Caja de Madrid (1988-1996), of its Financial Corporation and of the Board of Trustees of its Foundation (1988-1996). Independent Director and member of the Executive Committee of Bankinter (2008-2020); currently advisor to the Board and its Committees.

He was appointed Director of Aena, S.A. (now Aena, S.M.E, S.A.) and member of the Audit Committee and the Executive Committee on 3 June 2015, and reelected on 29 October 2020. In addition, he was appointed First Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aena S.M.E., S.A. on 27 February 2023.

Currently, he is Executive Vice Chairman at Aena SME, S.A., Managing Director at Aena Internacional, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aeroportos do Nordeste do Brasil S.A. (ANB) and Chairman of Bloco de Onze Aeroportos do Brasil S.A. (BOAB). As Executive Vice Chairman, he manages the Airports business unit, the Commercial and Real Estate business unit, the Innovation, Sustainability and Client Experience Directorate, the IT and Digitalisation Directorate and Aena’s international subsidiaries.

He is also Executive Committee Member of ACI EUROPE (Airport Council International), Member of the Board of ACI World and Member of the Madrid Territorial Council of IESE, Alumni Association.

He has held a number of management positions since joining Aena in 1991: Managing Director -Airports (2017- Feb.2013) Managing Director - Aena (2014-2017), Managing Director- Aena Aeropuertos S.A (2011-2014) and Director of Spanish Airports (2004-2011). He was also previously Managing Director - Air Navigation Services and Director of Corporate Development.

He has been a member of the Boards of Directors of different aeronautical infrastructure companies: Centros Logísticos Aeroportuarios S.A. (CLASA), Ingeniería y Economía del Transporte S.A. (INECO), London Luton Airport Operations Limited (LLAOL), of the mexican companies, Aeropuertos Mexicanos del Pacífico SA de CV(AMP) and Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico S.A.P.I. de CV (GAP), of the colombian companies, Aeropuertos del Caribe, S.A. (ACSA), Sociedad Aeroportuaria de la Costa, S.A. (SACSA) and Aerocali, S.A. He has also been President of ACI EUROPE.

Prior to joining Aena, he worked for the Universidad Politécnica of Madrid, the Spanish Civil Aviation Authorities, the Paris-based Eurocontrol Experimental Centre and Indra.

On 29 October 2020 he was appointed as director of Aena, S.M.E., S.A. He was also appointed second Deputy Chairman in February 2023. Javier Marín San Andrés has 340 Aena's shares.

She is currently an advisory member of the Cabinet of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, working as an advisor on policy and infrastructure for transport, decarbonisation, new technology and other areas.

She was a state representative in the “State Representatives of the Shift2Rail Joint Undertaking”, a public-private initiative that works to manage and coordinate R&D investment in the railway sector across the European Union, as part of the H2020 Programme from October 2017 to August 2022.

From February 2016 to June 2018, she worked in several positions at the Ministry of Economic Development as a senior technician at the Sub-directorate of Infrastructure at the Spanish Railway Safety Agency and later as its department head, after participating as a state representative in work groups at the European Union Agency for Railways.

From 2006 to 2016, she was project manager at Acciona Infrastructures, S.A. She is a director of E.P.E. Renfe Operadora. On 30 January 2024, she was appointed director at Aena S.M.E., S.A. and member of the Executive Committee and the Committee for Sustainability and Climate Action.

She has solid professional experience in strategic planning, financing mechanisms and the promotion of projects relating to the transport sector, in the public and private sectors.

She is currently assistant Director-General of Planning, the Trans-European Network and Logistics, in charge of coordinating planning policies and managing trans-European transport networks and Spanish and European institutional relationships in that regard, multi-modal infrastructure planning and coordination or application of European sectoral financing programmes, such as the Connecting Europe Facility, regional development and the recovery plan for sustainable, digital transport.

She is a member of the State Secretariat of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility and a director of the high-speed rail public business entity ADIF Alta velocidad.

Since 2006, she has held various posts at the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, starting in the Directorate-General for Roads, and, before joining the General State Administration (AGE), worked in the field of special structures. Previously, she held the post of Technical Director at the same State Secretariat and was in charge of starting up the Recovery Plan Office at Ineco.

On 20 April 2023, she was appointed proprietary director of Aena S.M.E., S.A., and is a member of the Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee.
 

She has been the General Manager of Meta Spain and Portugal since June 2012, where she heads the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp strategy in the Spanish and Portuguese markets.

She joined Facebook, now called Meta, in January 2010 as Commercial and Business Development Manager, after more than 10 years of experience in the sector, where she has worked for the most prestigious technology companies. Before managing the Meta Spain team, she developed her professional career at Google, firstly as head of operations in 2003 and then as Manager of Agencies in 2006.

Previously, she had worked for 3 years in Yahoo!´s commercial department. Over the course of her professional career, she also managed the Commercial Department of Orange Spain in 2009. She actively collaborates with various NGOs, including Fundación Vicente Ferrer.

On 29 October 2020 she was appointed as Director of Aena S.M.E., S.A. and on 22 December 2020 she was appointed as a member of the Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee. She has also been the President of the Sustainability and Climate Action Committee since 28 April 2021.

She has solid experience in the development of internationalization strategies and processes. She has been Managing Director of ICEX - Spain Export and Investment, and has been assigned as Chief Counselor in the Economic and Commercial Offices of Spain in Japan, Shanghai, Ghana, Jordan and Iraq.

She has been Vice President of the Leading Brands of Spain Forum and member of the Board of Trustees of the Spain-USA, Spain-China, Spain-Japan and Spain-Australia Council Foundations.

She has served on the Boards of Directors of ICO, ICEX and the Center for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI).

At the multilateral level, she has held the position of Senior Operations Officer (MENA) of the World Bank for private sector sustainable development.

She is currently Director of Corporate Planning and Management (CFO) at Operador del Mercado Ibérico de la Energía (OMIE), a private company that manages the spot electricity market in the Iberian Peninsula and participates very actively in the operation of the wholesale gas market.

She is a member of the Jaime Garralda Foundation - Open Horizons. In the teaching field, she has been an associate professor of Commercial Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

On 31 March 2022, she was appointed independent director of Aena, S.M.E., S.A. She is also a member of the Sustainability and Climate Action Committee and of the Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee.
 

Since September 2021, he has held the position of Deputy Director of Sector Analysis at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Enterprise.

A career civil servant, he began his professional experience at the Secretary of State for Commerce. Subsequently, he was appointed as representative of Spain on the Executive Board of the African Development Bank Group in Tunisia between 2010 and 2013.

Until 2015, he remained linked to matters related to multilateral financial institutions and development cooperation policies at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Competitiveness in Madrid.

Between 2015 and 2016 he worked as an advisor in the cabinet of the Secretary of State for the Economy and Business Support. Subsequently, between 2016 and 2020, he was working in the cabinet of successive finance ministers, mainly on issues related to the Spanish economy.

In 2020 he began to work in the General Directorate of Economic Policy, in regulatory matters, being appointed Deputy Director of Sector Analysis in September 2021.

In addition to his career in the General State Administration, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Sociedad Estatal Correos (Spanish Postal Service) and the Sociedad Hipódromo de la Zarzuela (Zarzuela Hippodrome Society), being also Chairman of the Auditing Committee of the latter.

He was appointed a director of Aena, SME, S.A. and a member of the Audit Committee on 28 October 2021.

He is currently Communications Director at the Ministry of Industry and Tourism. From 2021 until December 2023, he was Communications Director for the President of the Senate’s Office, and was in charge of media relations, institutional relations with Spanish and international bodies, events coordination with top state bodies, social media and the Senate website.

He was general director of Brand Communication and Publicity at Renfe, with full responsibility for communications, image and brand, publicity and corporate social responsibility, from July 2018 to July 2021. From 2008 to 2011, he was deputy general director of Communications at the Ministry of Defence. He has been communications director for the Socialist Group at the Congress of Deputies and communications advisor for the last three secretaries of the PSOE.

In the area of corporate communications, he has worked as a consultant for prestigious companies such as Burston Marsteller (now BCW) and LLYC, and he has worked in media communications for the news departments of Cadena SER, Antena 3 and Telecinco. He has also taught political communication and been a speaker for various seminars and professional masters’ degrees. On 30 January 2024 he was appointed director of Aena S.M.E., S.A.

She began her career in 1987 in the Audit Division of Arthur Andersen. Between 1989 and 2007, she developed her professional career at the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV).

From 2007 to 2013, she was CEO of the Instituto de Censores Jurados de España (ICJCE). Between 2013 and 2017 she was also an independent director, member of the Executive Committee, chair of the Global Risk Committee and member of the Audit Committee at Banco Mare Nostrum, S.A. (BMN).

During 2017 and 2018, she held the positions of independent director in Abanca Servicios Financieros, EFC, and president of the Mixed Audit and Risk Commission. Since May 2018, she has been an independent director, and since June 2022 she has been chairwoman of the Comprehensive Risk Committee and a member of the Audit and Compliance Committee of ABANCA CORPORACION BANCARIA, S.A.

Since October 2018, she has been an independent director and member of the Audit and Control Committee and the Appointments, Remuneration and Sustainability Committee of LAR ESPAÑA REAL ESTATE SOCIMI, S.A. In October 2020, she was appointed independent director of ACERINOX, S.A and is currently chairwoman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Sustainability Committee. Since December 2021, she has been a member of the International Advisory Board of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Comillas Pontifical University. Likewise, since 2013, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the ICADE Business Club and, since 2015, she has been a Trustee of the Prodis Special Employment Center Foundation. In August 2022, she was appointed independent director and chairwoman of the Audit Committee of Imantia Capital SGIIC.

On 9 April 2019, she was appointed director of Aena, SME, S.A. and re-elected on 20 April 2023. From 9 April 2019 to 9 April 2023, she was the chair of the Audit Committee and currently remains a member of the Audit Committee. She has also been a member of the Sustainability and Climate Action Committee since 28 April 2021.

He is Chairman and CEO of the companies of the Group led by the company Hoteles Turísticos Unidos, S.A., to which he has dedicated his entire professional career, and has managed since its founding in 1977. The company has a hotel operating division which boasts a portfolio of more than 140 establishments.

He is Chairman of the Social Council of the Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC), member of the Turespaña Advisory Board and the Consultative Council of the Catalan employers' association, Foment del Treball, Co-Chair of the AMCHAM Tourism Committee and member of the Board of Directors of the Business Council Alliance for Ibero-America (CEAPI) and of the Management Committee of the Barcelona Hotel Association, as well as member of the Tourism Round Table.

He was appointed Director of Aena, S.A. (now Aena, S.M.E, S.A.) and member of the Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee on 3 June 2015, and reelected on 29 October 2020. Since 9 April 2019, he has chaired the Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee.

She has over 15 years of experience in the public sector (General State Administration Services), undertaking the planning, supervision and control of various public spending areas, preparing reports on provisions and economic-financial management activity, and taking part in working groups for the preparation of regulatory projects related to the various areas of public spending.

As of March 2024, she is the Director-General of Economic Programming and Budgets at the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, having been Technical Secretary-General for this Ministry from June 2018 to March 2024. From February 2010 to June 2018, she held the post of Subdirector-General for Intervention and Fiscalisation at the Comptroller General’s Office, being responsible for the planning and coordination of pre-court control activities in various areas of public spending.

Previously, she held responsibilities in various other positions at the Comptroller General’s Office (Intervention Delegate at the Ministry of Science and Technology, Intervention Delegate at the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office, Subdirectorate-General for Intervention and Fiscalisation).

She was previously a member of the Boards of Directors of CETARSA and RUMASA.

On 16 July 2018, she was appointed Director of Aena, S.M.E., S.A., as well as a member of the Executive Committee, and was reelected on 20 April 2023. In addition, since 20 June 2023, she is a member of the Audit Committee.

She is currently Head of the Cabinet at the Secretariat of State for Transport and Sustainable Mobility. From 2011 to December 2023, she was Director of the Cabinet at the Mayor’s Office of Irún City Council, having worked as its Communications Director since 2007.

She was an editor at Cadena SER in Irun and director of Diario HoyxHoy Irun from 2001 to 2007, as well as a presenter and producer at Televisión del Bidasoa from 1997 to 2001. She is currently a director of EPE Renfe Operadora. She was appointed director of Aena, SME, S.A. and member of the Executive Committee on 30 January 2024.

He has a solid professional career, with more than 25 years' experience in the telecommunications, and communications, digital and technological media sectors. His professional career has centred on corporate strategy, digital transformation and business growth.

He has worked in more than 20 countries, having developed solid, international experience, successfully managing teams with radically different origins and features, from teams of 2-3 highly entrepreneurial people to multifunctional teams with hundreds of members.

He is currently Senior Managing Director and co-directs the American strategic consultancy business, FTI Consulting, at worldwide level in the telecommunications sector, from its headquarters in San Francisco (USA). Previously, he joined FTI Consulting via the acquisition of Delta Partners Group in 2020, which he helped to create and manage from 2006 until 2020. At Delta Partners Corp (American subsidiary of Delta Partners Group) he held the posts of President, Partner Director, Internships Director and Director of the office in Silicon Valley.

In addition, he has also worked as an executive director in several multinational firms and corporations, such as McKinsey & Co, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and Oliver Wyman.

On 22 December 2020, he was appointed as an Independent Director of Aena S.M.E., S.A. and member of the Audit Committee until 29 November 2022, the date when he became a part of the Sustainability and Climate Action Committee.

As of 2022, he is an independent director and advisor at Finalbion S.L.U., and an independent director at Julius Baer, as well as a President of the Auditing Committee and a member of the Development and Innovation Committee. He has also held various positions as independent director during the last 15 years. Among others, in TSB Banking Group in the United Kingdom, in the joint venture insurance companies between Zurich Insurance and Banco Sabadell. He was also Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sabadell Asset Management.

From 1992 to 2021, he was an executive at Banco Sabadell. For the last 10 years, until 2021, he has been the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and, previously, from his entry until 2001, he held the position of Internal Auditing Director.

Likewise, until 1992, he was an executive in the Control and Organisation areas at Allianz Seguros in Spain and, previously, he began his career as an auditor at Price Waterhouse, in Spain, between 1982 and 1988.

The 29 November 2022 he was named independent director of Aena, S.M.E., S.A., as well as member of the Auditing Committee and the Appointments, Remuneration and Corporate Governance Committee. Since April 10, 2023, he has been chairman of the Audit Committee.

She has been a member of different collegiate bodies and working groups in the public sector.  
 
She began her professional career as a State Attorney in the Superior Courts of Justice of Catalonia and Madrid (1998-2002). Later, she joined the Spanish Tax Agency (AEAT) as the Assistant Director of Legal Services.
 
Following eight years at the AEAT, she went on to the Audiencia Nacional (National Court) for a year to manage contentious-administrative proceedings in the Telecommunications area. In 2012, she joined the Ministry of Employment, taking on a dual role as Head State Attorney in the Ministry of Employment and Coordinator of the legal assistance agreements with the Foundation for the prevention of occupational hazards and with the Economic and Social Council.
 
Since 2016, when she joined IFEMA, she has held different positions of responsibility in the legal area, with significant work in cultural and digital transformation projects as head of the Transformation Office and leader of the Fundación IFEMA Lab. Also of note in this professional period is the implementation of a Regulatory Compliance System.
 
From July 2021 to April 2022, she worked as State Attorney at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 
As of 3 may 2022, she is the General Secretary and Secretary of the Board at Aena, SME, S.A.

As a State's Attorney since 2006, he has held advisory positions in a number of Spanish ministries, such as Education, Social Policy and Sport, Labour and Immigration and Health, Social Policy and Equality. 
In the area of contentious work, he was assigned to the Office of the State’s Attorney in Barcelona, he has acted as the coordinator of the Civil and Mercantile Department of the Office of the State’s Attorney, acting before ordinary and arbitration Courts, as well as State’s Attorney-Head of the Insolvency Area. 
He has also coordinated the legal assistance agreements for several public state agencies, such as the Sociedad Estatal de Gestión Inmobiliaria del Patrimonio (asset management); Aguas de las Cuencas de España (water management); the Official Credit Institute; the Sociedad Estatal de Infraestructuras de Transporte Terrestre (land transport infrastructures); Fundación CIEN and the CIBERNED Public Consortium.
In the public sector, he has held the position of Technical Secretary General at the Ministry of Employment and Social Security (2012-2018).
On 21 December 2021, he was appointed as Deputy Secretary of the Board for Aena S.M.E., S.A. He also holds the position of Director of Legal Affairs and Compliance at Aena.