Mr. Oporto del Olmo has been a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, chairing the Committee on Budgets and Administration and the Committee on Operations and Financial Rules, he was also a member of its Audit Committee. Additionally, he has been a board member in other public and private companies, among which the Spanish Arab Bank, Compañía Sevillana de Electricidad, ACS / Dragados, Eolia, Carboex and Talgo (during the years 2012 to 2013). In addition, Mr. Oporto del Olmo was General Secretary of the Círculo de Empresarios, CEO of Corporación Llorente and Chairman of Alstom Spain. He was also a director of the SEPI / INI public group, forming part of the Executive Committee as Commercial and International Relations Director. Mr. Oporto del Olmo held a position in the Ministry of Economy and Finance after joining the Corps of Commercial Technicians and State Economists, and has been a part-time professor at the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) and Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Málaga. He is also Knight of the Order of Merit of the French Republic and has been Protector of the Royal Academy of the History of Spain since, regular member of the Washington Corporate Circle of Stanford University, member of the Economic and Social Council of the Kingdom of Spain, member of the Energy Advisory Board and Transport of the European Commission and patron of the COTEC Foundation (Spain and Technology). Mr. Oporto del Olmo has a degree in Economics from the University of Malaga, a State Commercial Technician, a diploma in international business from the Wharton Business School, and a doctorate in economic and business sciences with Cum Laude qualification from the University of Malaga. He has also completed a seminar on international economics at Harvard University.