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Nadia Calviño
Government of Spain
Vice President and Minister for Economy and Digitalization
Description
Nadia Calviño, Vice-President and Minister for Economy and Digitalization since June 2020, holds adegree in Economics (1991) from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) and a degree in Law(2001) from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). In 1994, she joined the Spanishpublic administration as member of the corps of State Economist and Trade Experts (TécnicosComerciales y Economistas del Estado).Since 2018, Vice-President Calviño was Minister for Economy and Business and from 2014 to 2018, shewas the Director General in charge of the Budget within the EU Commission. Previously, she held othersenior management positions in the European Commission: Deputy Director General with a specialresponsibility for Financial Services and Deputy Director General in the Directorate General forCompetition with special responsibility for Mergers and Antitrust (including cartels).Before joining the European Commission in September 2006, she was a civil servant in Spain (TécnicoComercial y Economista del Estado) where she worked in the Ministry for Economy. She held differentpositions in the areas of foreign trade, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, economic policy andcompetition. Senior roles included Deputy Director General for Legal Affairs, Deputy Director Generalfor Mergers and Director General for Competition.Minister Calviño lectured at the Faculty of Economics at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid.She also published a large number of articles on matters within her purview and awarded the 2012Women's Leadership Awards by the Aliter Business School and the 2007 Public Sector Lawyer of theYear by the Iberian Lawyer magazine.
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