Professor of Financial Economics and Rector of CUNEF University, Ana Isabel Fernández Álvarez, has been appointed president-elect of the Princess of Asturias Foundation by acclamation of the institution’s Board of Trustees at the extraordinary meeting held this morning in Oviedo and online, employing a hybrid format. She will take up office as of December 2022.
Ana Isabel Fernández Álvarez will succeed Luis Fernández-Vega Sanz who, after four years heading the Foundation, is the institution’s fifth president, following Matías Rodríguez Inciarte (2008-2018), José Ramón Álvarez Rendueles (1996 -2008), Plácido Arango Arias (1987-1996) and Pedro Masaveu Peterson (1980-1987).
This appointment occurs following the resignation for reasons of health of the President of the Board of Trustees, Mauro Guillén Rodríguez, who had been named to fill the post last May.
Rector of the CUNEF University, she holds a Chair in Financial Economics, a PhD in Business Economics (1985) and a Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Oviedo (1981). She has been a member of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees since 2015 and has sat on the Jury for the Princess of Asturias Award for Concord on several occasions.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of Mapfre, S.A., and of the Madrid Stock Exchange (Grupo BME) and has been a member of the Board of the National Securities and Exchange Commission (2010-2014). At the University of Oviedo, she has held the positions of Secretary of the Advisory Social Council (1986-1991), Dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences (1994-1998), Vice-Rector for Postgraduate and Certificate Studies (2000-2004) and Vice-Rector for Research (2004-2005). She has supervised twelve PhD theses and has been editor of the journal Cuadernos de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa (CEDE). She has been a member of the Board of the Banco Herrero Foundation (1997-2010) and currently sits on the Banco Sabadell Foundation’s Board of Trustees. She has published books and articles in prestigious journals in the field of corporate finance, corporate governance and banking and financial regulation.