Ana Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y O'Shea

EXECUTIVE CHAIR

Executive director

Board member since 1989.

Nationality: Spanish. Born in Santander (Spain) in 1960.

Education: Degree in Economics from Bryn Mawr College of Pennsylvania.

Experience: Ms Botín joined Banco Santander in 1988, after working at J.P. Morgan in New York (1980-1988). Up to 1998, she held several executive positions and led the Group’s expansion across Latin America. In 2002, she was appointed Executive Chair of Banesto. Between 2010 and 2014, she was CEO of Santander UK plc and was a non-executive director until April 2021. In 2014 she was appointed Executive Chair of Banco Santander. She was also a non-executive director of Santander UK Group Holdings plc (2014-2021) and Chair of the European Banking Federation (2021-2023).

Other positions of note: Ms Botín is a member of the board of directors of The Coca-Cola Company and Chair of the Institute of International Finance (IIF). She is also founder and Chair of CyD (a foundation that supports higher education) and Fundación Empieza por Educar (the Spanish subsidiary of international NGO Teach For All), and sits on the advisory board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Positions in other Group companies: Ms Botín is non-executive Chair of Open Bank, S.A., Santander Consumer Finance, S.A., Open Digital Services, S.L., PagoNxt, S.L., Universia España Red de Universidades, S.A. and Universia Holding, S.L.; and is a non-executive director of Santander Holdings USA, Inc. and Santander Bank, N.A.

Membership of board committees: Executive committee (Chair) and innovation and technology committee.