Beatriz De Guindos

Beatriz de Guindos Talavera has a master-degree with honors in Economics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In 2003 she became member of State Corps of Commercial Experts and Economists, the Spanish elite civil servants in the economic field. From the beginning of her career at the Public Administration she joined the Spanish Competition Authority to deal first with mergers and then with antitrust cases. In 2007 she became Deputy Director and Head of Unit for Energy and Industry and in 2018 she was appointed Director General for Competition at the Spanish Competition Authority (Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia, CNMC).

De Guindos has also worked abroad at the World Bank Group, where she was appointed in 2014 for a 2-year term as Alternate Executive Director, representing Spain and 7 countries from Latin America at the Board of Directors. At the World Bank, she leveraged her experience in competition policy to address the challenges in developing countries and the need for enabling environments to attract resources for development.

Beatriz de Guindos is currently Senior Coordinator of Multilateral, Thematic and Financial Cooperation at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

She has authored various publications in the field of competition and has taken part as a speaker in many national and international antitrust forums. She teaches regularly in different Postgraduate specialized Masters in Competition Law. In 2022 she joined IE University as Adjunct professor of Competition Law.

In 2017, Beatriz de Guindos was awarded by W@Competition and PaRR Global as one of the ’30 in their 30s’ Notable Women Competition Professionals in the Enforcement Category. In 2022 she co-authored a book on women leadership in Spain (Las mujeres en distintos sectores de actividad en España. Evolución y liderazgo).

CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

• Senior Coordinator of Multilateral, Thematic and Financial Cooperation at the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spain, 2021 – Present

• Director General of Competition, National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC), Spain, 2018 – 2021

• Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC), Spain, 2016 – 2018

• Alternate Executive Director at the World Bank Group, Washington DC -US, 2014 – 2016

• Head of Unit for Energy and Industry sector, Spanish Competition Authority (CNC), Spain, 2007 – 2014

• Case handler and deputy head for merger control,  Spanish Competition Authority (SDC), Spain, 2003 – 2007

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Adjunct Professor of Competition Law, IE University, Spain, 2022 – Present

• Lecturer, Module on merger control and antitrust procedure, Máster en Asesoría Jurídica de la Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain, 2019 – Present

• Lecturer, Module on Sector regulation and Competition law, Curso Competencia, Instituto Estudios Bursátiles, Spain, 2019 – Present

• Key teaching staff of the Jean Monnet Course: “Spreading solutions for new challenges of EU Competition Law” at Universidad de Valencia, Spain 2016 – 2019

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Master-degree with honors in Economics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2001

• Member of the State Corps of Commercial Experts and Economists, Spain, 2003

• V Programa de Liderazgo en la Gestión Pública, IESE, Spain, 2008 – 2009

• Program on Negotiation (Harvard University, November 2011

• IV Workshop in International Economics, Harvard University, Boston-US, September 2012

• Curso de Derecho de la Competencia Comunitario y Español, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 2004

• Curso de Economía del Sector Energético del Máster en Economía Industrial Universidad Carlos IlI de Madrid, Spain, 2004 – 2005

• Curso de Economía de las Telecomunicaciones del Máster en Economía Industrial, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, 2004