Cristina Quilez Sardá

Cristina has 20+ years’ experience as a legal professional. She started her career as a lawyer at Clifford Chance and from 2003 onwards worked as in-house counsel and legal director for companies with international businesses such as Gamesa, Siemens and Duro Felguera. She was a senior corporate counsel for Amazon in Spain and Luxembourg and worked as a senior independent consultant for companies having business in the e-commerce, energy, engineering and health industries. Currently she is Head of Legal for the Commercial and Clean Energies business division of CEPSA.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Head of Legal Commercial & Clean Energies, CEPSA, Spain,  Present

• Senior legal consultant & interim legal manager. Member of the Board of Directors of Fertial SPA, Spain, 2019 – 2021

• Duro Felguera, General Counsel – Spain – 2020

• Amazon, Senior Corporate Counsel, Luxembourg & Spain, 2013 – 2019

• Siemens, Lead Lawyer, Spain, 2012

• Gamesa (currently SGRE), Legal Director CCS, USA & Spain, 2004 – 2011

• Clifford Chance, Associate, Spain, 1998 – 2003

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Lecturer at the EDTX Program, Digital Law & Regulation, IE University, 2021 – Present

• Lecturer at the Fashion Law Program, Centro de Estudios Garrigues, 2016 – 2017

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• IESE, Executive Program on Strategy Implementation & Business Control, Spain, 2013

• College of Law of England and Wales & IE University, Lawyers Management Program, UK and Spain, 2011

• IE University, Program on Energy Law, Spain, 2012

• Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Program on International Legal Cooperation (LLM), Belgium, 1996 – 1997

• Universidad de Navarra, Degree in Law, Spain, 1991 – 1996