Emma Navarro

Emma Navarro is currently Independent Board Director of Iberdrola España.

Prior to this position, Emma was Vice-President of the European Investment Bank, the world’s largest multilateral Bank and largest financier of climate projects, where she led its Sustainability and Climate Action Strategy.

Emma has held the position of President of ICO, the Spanish National Promotional Bank and State Financial Agency.

During her career in the Spanish public administration, she served as Secretary General for the Treasury and Financial Policy. She was also a member of the Boards of Bank of Spain, of the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), of the FROB (the Spanish Executive Resolution Authority) and the Vice-Chairperson of the Deposit Guarantee Fund.

She has represented Spain in many European and international financial bodies, as an alternate member of the Eurogroup and Ecofin and alternate representative to the G20-Finance track meetings, a Board director of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB).

She has held other positions of responsibility in various departments of the Spanish General State Administration and has been adviser at the IMF to the Executive Director for Mexico, Spain, Colombia and Venezuela.