Independent Leading Director of Enagás, Director of Ecoener and of Emissions Reduction Corp.
Member of the External Advisory Council of Energy Future Initiative (EFI).
Member of the Executive Board of the Atlantic Council of the United States.
Member of the Industry Advisory Council of the International Energy Forum (IEF)
Member of the governing bodies of a number of research centres and public institutions: the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Science Board of Real Instituto Elcano and the Global Leadership Foundation.
Guest lecturer at Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and at the Mohamed VI Polytechnic University.
She writes regularly for Project Syndicate and “El Mundo”, among other media.
Regular participant as panellist in international conferences and forums; in the energy sector, among others, the Istanbul G-20 International Energy Forum; the Atlantic Council Energy & Economic Summit, Atlantic Council Energy Forum and the Schlessinger Awards Energy Security Conference. She was invited as a speaker by the International Energy Agency (IEA) (2017).
Degree in law, political science and sociology.
Honorary PhD in humanities from Georgetown University and winner of the 2016 Sandra Day O’Connor Justice Prize and granted with the title of Officer de la Légion d’Honneur by the Republic of France (2016).
Elective member of the Spanish Council of State (2012- 2018).
Member of the European advisory council of The European House - Ambrosetti (2015-2016).
Coordinator of the Trans-European Transport Network (2014).
Member of the Advisory Council of Foreign Affairs and Security (2010-2014) and of the Committee for the Appointment of Judges and Advocates-General of the European Union Court of Justice and the General Court (2010-2013).
Advisor to the European Commission on Justice, fundamental rights and citizenship (2010-2012).
Vice President and member of the Executive Committee of AREVA (2008-2009).
Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank (2006-2008).
Secretary General of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (2006-2008).
Member of the Spanish Parliament, Chairwoman of the Joint Committee of the Two Houses for EU affairs (2004-2006).
Spain’s first woman Minister of Foreign Affairs (2002-2004).
Member of the Presidium of the Convention for the Future of Europe: she participated in the debate and the drafting of the European Constitution project (2001-2003).
Member of the European Parliament, Chairwoman of the Legal Affairs and Internal Market, Citizen Rights, Justice and Internal Affairs Committees, and Chairwoman of the Conference of Committee Chairmen (1994-2002).
