Coloma Armero Montes

Born in Madrid in 1954. She has a Degree in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Master's in Community Law from the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium).

She began her professional career in 1979 at the Armero law firm, which subsequently became part of Uría Menéndez in 1999, where she remained as a partner in the commercial, mergers and acquisitions department and a member of the Board of Directors until 2009.

Since 2009 until 2021, she has been an independent director on the Board of Directors of Mutua Madrileña and some of the group’s subsidiaries, as well as a member of its Investment Committee and its Auditing and Compliance Committee.

Since 2012 until 2022 she has been an independent director at Cemex Latam Holding, S.A., a listed company which shares are quoted on the Colombia´s stock exchange, and both a member and Chairwoman of its Auditing Committee, its Appointments and Remunerations Committee and its Corporate Governance Committee.

She also works as an arbitrator at Madrid’s Court of Arbitration, the Spanish Court of Arbitration and the Madrid Bar Association’s Court of Arbitration, specializing in the area of Corporate Arbitration. Joint Chair of the Madrid Bar Association’s Company Law and Corporate Governance Section, a member of the Community of Madrid’s Council of Bar Associations and Chair of its Resources Committee. She is also Secretary of the National Board and National Executive Committee of the Spanish Breast Cancer Association (AECC) and Chair of its Legal Regulation Committee; as well as a member of the Advisory Board of Fundación Exit.

She is also an academic director on the Master’s course for Access to the Legal Profession offered by the Madrid Bar Association, as well as professor of M&A and Corporate Governance on postgraduate courses at IE Law School.