Ana Botín

Ana Patricia Botín-Sanz de Sautuola O'Shea, DBE (born 4 October 1960) is a Spanish banker who has served as the executive chairman of Santander Group since 2014.[1][2] She is the fourth generation of the Botín family to hold this role. Prior to this she was chief executive officer (CEO) of Santander UK, a role she held from December 2010 until her assumption of the chairmanship.

Ana Botín

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Ana Patricia Botín within the framework of the UN Women Summit held in Chile in 2015
Born
Ana Patricia Botín O'Shea

(1960-10-04) 4 October 1960
Santander, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Alma materBryn Mawr College
OccupationExecutive Chairman, Santander Group
Spouse(s)Guillermo Morenés y Mariátegui
Children3
Parent(s)Emilio Botín
Paloma O'Shea
This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Botín-Sanz de Sautuola and the second or maternal family name is O'Shea.

In February 2013, she was ranked the third most powerful woman in the UK by Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4.[3]

Early life

Botín is the daughter of Spanish banker Emilio Botín, who was the executive chairman of Spain's Grupo Santander, and Paloma O'Shea. She received her high school education at St Mary's School, Ascot.[4] She studied economics at Bryn Mawr College.[5]

Career

Botín worked at JP Morgan in the US from 1980 to 1988.[6] In 1988, she returned to Spain and began working for the Santander Group. In 2002, she became the executive chairman of the Spanish bank, Banesto. In November 2010, Botín succeeded António Horta Osório as chief executive of Santander UK.[7]

In 2013, she was appointed a director of the Coca-Cola Company.[8]

In September 2014, she was appointed chair of the Santander Group.[9] She is the fourth generation of the Botín family to hold this role.[10]

Personal life

In 1983, she married fellow banker Guillermo Morenés y Mariátegui, son of the 9th Marquess of Borghetto, a wealthy landowner.[11] They have three children: Felipe Morenés Botín, Javier Morenés Botín, and Pablo Morenés Botín.

In 2010, her husband bought a six-bedroom home in Belgravia, London.[12] They also own a house in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad.[11]

In December 2015, it was announced she would be made an honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to the British financial sector.[13]

That same year, Botín was presented with the FIRST Award for Responsible Capitalism.[14][15]

Awards and honors

First listed in 2005,[16] Botín was ranked as the eighth most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in their 2019 listing.[17]

See also

References
  1. "Santander appoints Ana Botin as chairwoman". BBC News.
  2. "Ms Ana Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y O'Shea". www.santander.com.
  3. "BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour - The Power List 2013". BBC.
  4. Agnew, Harriet; Jenkins, Patrick (16 January 2015). "London: Sexism and the City". Financial Times. Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  5. Pérez, María Jesús (15 September 2014). "Ana Botín, la discreta sombra de su padre" [Ana Botín, the discreet shadow of her father]. ABC.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 June 2018.
  6. "Ana Botín: the most powerful woman in finance". www.worldfinance.com. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  7. "Ana Patricia Botin to Head Santander UK". New York Times. 4 November 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  8. "Coca-Cola board elects Ana Botin as a director". Retrieved 4 January 2018.
  9. "Ana Botín, unanimously appointed to chair the board of Banco Santander".
  10. "Emilio Botín - obituary". Daily Telegraph. 14 September 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  11. Ruiz, Borja (13 September 2014). "Guillermo Morenés, el consorte de la nueva primera dama de la banca". El Mundo. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  12. Penty, Charles (8 March 2011). "Banking Queen Botin Plans U.K. IPO in Santander Succession Test". Bloomberg. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  13. Trotman, Andrew (8 December 2015). "Santander boss Ana Botin awarded honorary damehood". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 25 December 2015.
  14. Manley, Simon (17 December 2015). "Ana Botín, of @bancosantander receives the FIRST award for Responsible Capitalism 2015 from @sajidjavid in Londonpic.twitter.com/Dku5DijzrR".
  15. Dobbs, Harry (8 January 2016). "2015 Award". Responsible Capitalism.
  16. "#99 Ana Patricia Botín". forbes.com. Retrieved 9 July 2008.
  17. "The World's Most Powerful Women 2019". Forbes. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
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