Idoya Arteagabeitia González

Idoya Arteagabeitia González is currently Director of Corporate Regulation at Telefonica S.A. assuming this role in October 2021.

She has joined Telefonica from Law Firm Pinsent Masons where she was a partner at its Madrid Office leading the Finance, Fintech and Banking Area.

Before joining Telefonica, Idoya served in the Spanish Government Legal Service in several posts: National High Court of Spain; Ministry of Justice; Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECID). For several years, she also directed the Legal Department and was the secretary of the Board of the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), the Spanish public bank, and its affiliates AxisPart, a Capital Risk Funds Management company and ICO Foundation.

Idoya has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director (NED) of the Sociedad de Gestión de Activos Procedentes de la Reestructuración Bancaria (Sareb), of the Compañía Española de Financiación del Desarrollo (COFIDES) and of Mercedes Benz Financial Services, EFC.

She holds a law degree from University of Salamanca, spending one year of studies at Rijkuniversitat at Maastricht (The Netherlands) and holding a post degree in European and Community Law. She was admitted to the Spanish Government Legal Services as State Attorney in 2002.