Cristina Garmendia Mendizábal

Ms. Cristina Garmendia Mendizábal obtained a PhD in Biological Sciences, specialising in Genetics, and became a Doctor of Molecular Biology at the Dr Margarita Salas laboratory, Severo Ochoa Centre for Molecular Biology. She completed her studies with an MBA from the IESE Business School of the University of Navarra. She was Minister of Science and Innovation in the Spanish Government during the whole of its IXth Legislature. Since leaving the Government, she resumed her responsibilities at the companies she herself founded, Ysios and Genetrix. She is chairperson at the Fundación COTEC and a member of various advisory boards, member of university councils and sits on the Boards of several companies, including Mediaset, CaixaBank and Grupo Logista. She is an advisor at the European Union, as member of the High Level Group (HLG), that has presented the recommendations for the design of the IX Framework Program of the EU (2021-2026). Her work and entrepreneurial vision have been recognized on several occasions with awards for research and innovation in business. Ms. Cristina Garmendia was appointed independent Director of Logista Holdings on 04/06/2014, and was re-elected in her position by the General Shareholders’ Meeting of 21/03/2018.