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Chairman of the Audit and Compliance and member of the Appointments and Remuneration Committee.
Born in 1934 in Madrid (Spain).
Graduate in Law, Doctorate in Economics and State Economist. He holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Alcalá and Alicante. He is also a non-executive Director of Corporación Financiera Alba.
He was appointed Director of the Bank on 25 April 2005.
Other relevant posts: In the Bank of Spain he was head of the Research Department, Deputy Governor and Governor. He has been a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, Vice Chairman of the European Monetary Institute, a member of the Planning and Development Committee of the United Nations and Treasurer of the International Association of Economics. He is Professor emeritus at the Complutense University of Madrid, a member of the Group of Wise Men appointed by the ECOFIN Council to study the integration of European financial markets and a member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences and of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language. | 