Eva Ballesté Morillas

Eva Ballesté has a solid professional experience of more than 25 years in Financial Management, Business Development and Operations in listed companies related to the transport, energy and infrastructure sectors such as Alstom, Endesa France, Puentes Group and in several companies of the Saudi group Amiantit. He also has experience as a member of the Boards of Directors of ADIF Alta Velocidad, AENA SME, S.A., Puertos del Estado, Monegros Depura SA, and Huesca Oriental Depura SA.

Professor Ballesté has been an advisor to the Board of Directors of the Club de Exportadores e Inversores de España since 2011 and a member of the Scientific Committee of the school of economic intelligence (La SEI-UAM) since 2017, and in 2024 she was appointed President of its Advisory Council.

Most of her research is in the discipline of finance, the subject of her doctoral thesis, but she has also researched other areas motivated by her professional experience: economic intelligence and digital transformation.

Professor Ballesté doctoral thesis is a deep work regarding project finance, Public-private partnership contracts, capital markets and concessions.

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Deputy Director (Assessor) at the Secretary of State for Housing, April 2024–present
• Deputy Director (Assessor) at the Secretary of State of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, March 2022–March 2024
• Head of Parts, Repairs and Customer Service Business Unit, Alstom Transporte, 2017 –February 2022
• Financial Sales and Business Development Director, Alstom Transporte, 2012 – 2016
• Economic-Financial Director of Concessions, Grupo Puentes, 2006 – 2012
• Previous: Manager controller in Endesa and Amiantit
• She has participated in large corporate operations of merger, sale and acquisition of assets
• She has worked in the implementation of control systems in the area of finance, commercial and operations of large corporations

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct professor since 2011 in finance and economic control department
• He has teaching experience at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas-ICADE, UNED, DEUSTO, UAM and IE Business School

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Board in progress program, Deloitte, 2026
• Frontiers of innovation and entrepreneurship program. MIT Sloan of management, Boston, 2025
• Workshop in International Economics. Harvad Business School, Boston, 2024
• Board of Directors Program: the good Governance , IC-A, 2022
• Board of Directors Program (Corporate Governance), PwC-W2W, 2020
• Board of Directors Program (Corporate Governance), Esade Business School, 2018
• Ph.D in Economics, UNED, 2013
• IE Business School Executive Master´s, Financial Management, 2007
• Copenhagen Business School Bachelor of Business Administration – BBA (one year erasmus exchange), Business/Managerial Economics, 2003
• Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Accounting and Finance, 2002