Rosa María Sánchez-Yebra Alonso is currently an Independent Director of Abanca Corporación Bancaria and a member of its Comprehensive Risk Committee. She is also an Independent Director of Impulsa Galicia, a public-private association to promote strategic projects in the Galicia Region. Before that, she completed a five-year term as Vice-Governor of Social and Sustainable Development Strategy at the Council of Europe Development Bank in Paris (www.coebank.org).
Between 2014 and 2016 she was Secretary General of the Treasury and Financial Policy of Spain. In that role, she served as Vice-Minister of the Eurogroup and Ecofin and was a member of the Board of the Bank of Spain, the Spanish National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), Vice-President of the National Fund for Orderly Bank Restructuring (FROB) and Vice-President of the National Deposit Guarantee Fund (FGD).
She has previously held other senior positions in the Spanish administration and has been part of, among others, the Board of Directors of the National Development Bank (ICO), the Spanish Export Promotion Agency (ICEX), the State Agency for Export Credit Financing (CESCE), and the State Holding of Public Companies (SEPI).
She is a member of the Senior Corps of Commercial Technicians and State Economists of the Civil Service and holds an MBA from IE Business School as well as an MSc and a Doctorate in Pharmacy.
