Jose
Ignacio Sanchez Galan was born in 1950
in Salamanca, Spain. Jose moved to Madrid where he studied at the Escuela
Técnica Superior de Ingenierίa (ICAI) at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas
earning a degree in electro-mechanical industrial engineering.
Aside from this Jose also earned a degree in
Business Administration and Foreign Trade from the Instituto Católico de
Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ICADE) at the Universidad Pontificia
Comillas (Madrid) and received a degree in General Business Administration and
Foreign Trade from the Escuela de Organización Industrial (EOI) of Madrid. Jose
speaks Spanish, French, Italian, and English.
In
1972, Jose started his professional career at Sociedad Españal de Acumulador
Tudor, where from various executive positions he managed the company’s
international expansion. He managed Industria de Turbopropulsores (ITP) in the
early 1990s and let a successful restructuring.
Jose was the chairman, from 1993 to 1995 of Eurojet, the European
consortium which developed and manufactured Eurojet engines used by the
Eurofigher.
In
2001 he was appointed as executive vice-president and CEO of Iberdrola and in
2006 appointed executive chairman of the company. Under his leadership
Iberdrola has grown to become one of the world’s largest electricity company
and a global leader in wind energy.
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