Ignacio S. Galán

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Iberdrola

Degree in Industrial Engineering, ICAI, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid. Formerly with: Tudor (now Grupo Exide); ITP (Industria de Turbo Propulsores); Eurojet; Airtel Móvil (now Vodafone España). Currently, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Iberdrola; Chairman, ScottishPower (UK), Avangrid (US) and Neoenergia (Brazil). Member: Electricity Cluster, World Economic Forum; Member, Steering Committee, European Round Table of Industrialists. Presidential CEO Advisory Board, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recipient: Best CEO in the European Utilities by Institutional Investor Research Group (2017); Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2014); Responsible Capitalism Award (2014). Doctor Honoris Causa, universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde (Glasgow), United Kingdom, and University of Salamanca, Spain.

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