Fundación Telefónica has appointed Enrique Goñi Beltrán de Garizurieta as its new Executive Chairman. Fundación Telefónica, whose purpose is to make a more humane world by promoting inclusive digital development, works to respond to four major challenges: reducing the educational gap, improving employability, fostering social and digital integration and promoting art, culture and thought.
Fundación Telefónica is committed to technology as a means for social integration and evolution through which to expand skills, provide more opportunities and reduce inequalities. In this new stage, led by Enrique Goñi, it also aspires to become the European benchmark in the promotion of strategies that enhance technological competitiveness and social impact, consolidating Spain as the epicentre of debate and action in responsible technological innovation.
Enrique Goñi pointed out that we have in Europe “the talent, the capacity and the responsibility to promote a model of technological development that is both ethical and competitive at a global level, it is our time”. Fundación Telefónica will strengthen its role as a catalyst for public policies and business strategies aimed at strengthening the Spanish and European technological innovation ecosystem and ensuring that it is aligned with the digital rights of EU citizens.
Together with the new president, the Board of Trustees of Fundación Telefónica is made up as follows. Ex officio trustees (in accordance with their position at Telefónica, S.A.): Marc Thomas Murtra Millar, Emilio Gayo Rodríguez; Eduardo Navarro de Carvalho; Álvaro Echevarría Arévalo; Laura Abasolo García de Baquedano; Trinidad Jiménez García-Herrera; Marta Machicot Arbizu; Juan Azcue Vich; Sebastián Muriel Herrero and, as Elected Trustees: Enrique Goñi Beltrán de Garizurieta (Chairman); Javier Nadal Ariño; Javier Solana Madariaga; Julio Linares López; Lucía Figar de Lacalle; Carmen Morenés Giles; Carmen García de Andrés; Non-Trustee Secretary: Pablo de Carvajal González; Non-Patron Deputy Secretary: Isabel Salazar Páramo.
Luis Angel Prendes Arroyo remains in his position as managing director of the entity.
Biography
Enrique Goñi Beltrán de Garizurieta is deputy to the president of Criteria Caixa and president of the Hermes Institute, tasks that he will continue to perform. As founder of the Hermes Foundation, he also chairs its Board of Trustees, an institution committed to the promotion of rights in the digital sphere.
He holds a degree in Law from the University of Navarra and a PADE from IESE. He studied Strategic Management at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and Harvard Business School. He began his professional career at Barclays Bank and later became Deputy General Manager and CEO of the MutuAvenir group of companies. In 1996 he joined Agrupación Mutua as Deputy Director and in 1998 he was appointed Deputy General Manager of the Group. In 2000 he was appointed General Manager of the Corporate Business Group of Caja Navarra and since 2002 he has been General Manager of Caja de Ahorros de Navarra. In 2010, together with the directors of Caja Canarias and Caja Burgos, he founded the Banca Cívica Group as Executive Chairman, a group to which Caja Sol later joined. Enrique Goñi has been Co-Chairman and CEO of the Banca Cívica Group and CEO of Caja Navarra. He is a member of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome and of the advisory committee of the Latam Global Leadership and Competitiveness Program at Georgetown University.
