Carlos Torres Vila (born 24 February 1966) is a Spanish banker, who has been CEO of

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A. (), better known by its initialism BBVA, is a Spanish multinational financial services company based in Madrid and Bilbao, Spain. It is one of the largest financial institutions in the world, and is present ...

(BBVA) since May 2015, and executive chairman since December 2018.

Education

Torres Vila completed his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and business at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

and earned an MBA from the

Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs, ...

at the same university. Torres Vila also holds a law degree from the UNED.

Professional career

Torres Vila began his professional career at the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he became partner in 1997. Torres Vila was later recruited by

Endesa Endesa, S.A. (, originally an initialism for ''Empresa Nacional de Electricidad, S.A''.) is a Spanish multinational electric utility company, the largest in the country. The firm, a majority-owned subsidiary of the Italian utility company Enel, ...

as director of strategy and corporate development, where he was subsequently appointed a member of the steering committee and director of finance/CFO. In September 2008, Torres Vila joined the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria as director of corporate strategy and development and a member of its management committee. In March 2014 Torres Vila was appointed as digital banking director, a position that he held until May 2015, when he replaced his predecessor Ángel Cano as president and COO of BBVA in order to accelerate the transformation of the bank.

Other activities

Corporate boards

* Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, Member of the Board of Directors * Garanti BBVA, Member of the Board of Directors

Non-profit organizations

* Endeavor España, Member of the Board of Trustees * Fundación BBVA, Chairman of the Board *

Institute of International Finance An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes can ...

, Member of the Board of Directors *

European Financial Services Roundtable The European Financial Services Round Table (EFR) brings together chairmen and chief executives of leading European banks and insurance companies. The purpose of the EFR is to contribute to the European public policy debate on issues relating to fi ...

(EFR), Member *

Elcano Royal Institute The Elcano Royal Institute for International and Strategic Studies (Spanish: ''Real Instituto Elcano de Estudios Internacionales y Estratégicos''; RIE) is a think tank based in Madrid, Spain. It was created on 26 November 2001 as private foundati ...

, Member of the Board of Trustees * Fundación de Ayuda contra la Drogadicción, Member of the Board of Trustees

References

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