Isabel Sánchez García

Member of the Board of Directors
Member of the Audit, Risks and Compliance Committee
Member of the Nominations, Remunerations and Corporate Governance Committee

Isabel Sánchez García is an economist with a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a PhD in Economics from the University of California, San Diego.

Her academic experience in higher education is extensive: in Spain, she has been a full professor at the Complutense University and the Carlos III University of Madrid, and in the USA, at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Rochester, New York. She is currently a member of the IE University faculty, where she has been very active since its inception, first as Director of the Bachelor of Business Administration programme and now as Vice Chancellor in charge of the Associate and Visiting Professors of all the institution's Masters and Bachelor programmes, and Director of the IEU Labs.

Isabel Sánchez's experience is not limited to academia. She has worked in the areas of energy market regulation and competition policy in different public institutions. Among other positions, she has been Deputy Director General of Studies and Deputy Director General of Concentrations at the Competition Court, Deputy Director of Regulated Prices at the National Electricity System Commission; Deputy Director of Regulated Systems at the National Energy Commission; and Director of Competition Promotion at the National Competition Commission. She has also been an independent director of ENAGAS, SA.

Isabel Sánchez has also been actively involved in the development of science, technology and innovation policies, having held the position of Director of the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Science and Technology Policy of the first Ministry of Science and Technology in Spain. She has been an advisor to the Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) and has worked for three years at the World Bank in the Private Sector Development and Energy Department for Latin America and the Caribbean, based in Washington DC.

Category:

Independent

First and last appointments:

    • 27 June 2023
    • 27 June 2023

Boards of Directors of other listed companies to which se serves (*):

None
(*) Excluding: (i) holding or family-owned companies and (ii) positions in companies that had been already recorded in the previous biographical note.

Boards of Directors of other non- listed companies to which she serves (*):

None
(*) Excluding: (i) holding or family-owned companies and (ii) positions in companies that had been already recorded in the previous biographical note.

Other paid activities:

Vice Chancellor and Associate Dean of Adjunct and Visiting Faculty en IE University.

Ownership Interest:

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