José Antonio Álvarez Álvarez

VICE CHAIR

Non-executive director 

Board member since 2015.

Nationality: Spanish. Born in 1960 in León, Spain.

Education: Degree in Economics and Business Administration. MBA from the University of Chicago.

Experience: Mr Álvarez joined Banco Santander in 2002. He was appointed Senior Executive Vice President (director general) and Head of the Financial Management and Investor Relations division in 2004 (Group Chief Financial Officer) and was Group CEO from 2015 to 2022. He served as director at SAM Investments Holdings Limited, Santander Consumer Finance, S.A., Santander Holdings USA, Inc., and as non-executive Vice Chair of Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A. He sat on the supervisory boards of Santander Consumer Bank AG, Santander Consumer Holding GmbH and Santander Bank Polska, S.A. He was also a board member of Bolsas y Mercados Españoles, S.A.

Other positions of note: Mr Álvarez is an independent director of Aon PLC and a member of the advisory committee of Grupo Buenavista.

Positions in other Group companies: Mr Álvarez is a non-executive director of PagoNxt, S.L.

Membership of board committees: Executive committee, risk supervision, regulation and compliance committee and innovation and technology committee.