Ana Patricia Botin
Ms Botín is the Executive Chairman of Banesto, the retail banking arm of Grupo Santander. Under her leadership since 2002, the bank has invested in innovation and small and medium enterprises, delivering shareholder returns of more than 150 percent. She joined Banco Santander in 1988 in Madrid and directed its international expansion during the 1990s. Prior to that, she worked at J.P. Morgan & Company in the Treasury and Latin American divisions.
Ms Botín has been recognised as one of the world's most powerful women by leading business publications such as Forbes, Fortune and the Wall Street Journal, as well as being rated Europe's Number One Business Woman in 2005 and 2006 by the Financial Times. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of the New York Stock Exchange and the Inter-American Development Bank, and Founder and Vice-Chairman of "Empresa y Crecimiento" Foundation, which finances small and medium companies in Latin America, and also Founder and Chairman of Conocimiento y Desarrollo Foundation (focuses on Universities). She attended Harvard and Bryn Mawr Colleges, receiving a degree in Economics from the latter.
Ms Botín is the Executive Chairman of Banesto, the retail banking arm of Grupo Santander. Under her leadership since 2002, the bank has invested in innovation and small and medium enterprises, delivering shareholder returns of more than 150 percent. She joined Banco Santander in 1988 in Madrid and directed its international expansion during the 1990s. Prior to that, she worked at J.P. Morgan & Company in the Treasury and Latin American divisions.
Ms Botín has been recognised as one of the world's most powerful women by leading business publications such as Forbes, Fortune and the Wall Street Journal, as well as being rated Europe's Number One Business Woman in 2005 and 2006 by the Financial Times. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of the New York Stock Exchange and the Inter-American Development Bank, and Founder and Vice-Chairman of "Empresa y Crecimiento" Foundation, which finances small and medium companies in Latin America, and also Founder and Chairman of Conocimiento y Desarrollo Foundation (focuses on Universities). She attended Harvard and Bryn Mawr Colleges, receiving a degree in Economics from the latter.
