Guillermo de la Dehesa

Guillermo de la Dehesa
Secretary of State of Economy and Finance
In office
1986–1988
Preceded byMiguel Ángel Fernández Ordóñez
Succeeded byPedro Pérez Fernández
Personal details
Born (1941-07-09) 9 July 1941 (age 82)
Madrid, Spain
Political partySocialist Workers' Party
SpouseMichèle Barbé
Children2
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid

Guillermo de la Dehesa Romero (born July 9, 1941 in Madrid) is a Spanish lawyer, economist, politician and businessman. Since leaving politics in 1988 he has been an international advisor to Goldman Sachs.

Biography

Guillermo de la Dehesa was born in Madrid on July 9, 1941. He was educated at Colegio del Pilar, and studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid. After passing the Técnico Comercial y Economista del Estado in 1968, de la Dehesa held various positions in the central government, in both the ministries of commerce, energy, industry and economics and the Bank of Spain. Under the governments of the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he rose to the position of Secretary of State of Economy and Finance (1986-1988).

De la Dehesa joined the private sector in 1988, serving as Chief Executive Officer of Banco Pastor, President of Gas Madrid, and Consultant to Ibersuizas, Unión Fenosa and Telepizza. De la Dehesa is currently an international advisor to Goldman Sachs, Vice President of Amadeus IT Group, Non-Executive Chairman of Aviva Corporation, Member of the European Advisory Board of Eli Lilly and Company and an Independent Director and Member of the Executive Committee of Banco Santander. He is also Chairman of the Board of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and a patron of the Museo del Prado and the Círculo de Bellas Artes. De la Dehesa is a regular contributor to the newspaper El País and an author of several textbooks on economics.[1] He is a member of the Group of Thirty.

He has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Museo Reina Sofía since 2010[2] and Trustee of the Museo del Prado and the Círculo de Bellas Artes.

He is a member of the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of Amadeus IT Group (May 2012).

He is the author of several economics manuals.

References

  1. ^ García, Ángeles (June 7, 2010). "El economista Guillermo de la Dehesa, nuevo presidente del patronato del Reina Sofía". El País. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  2. ^ "El economista Guillermo de la Dehesa, nuevo presidente del patronato del Reina Sofía". El País (in Spanish). 2010-06-07. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-05-31.

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