Sandra Ortega Mera (born 19 July 1968) is a Spanish

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

heiress, businesswoman and socialite. Mera is the daughter of

Amancio Ortega Gaona Amancio Ortega Gaona (; born 28 March 1936) is a Spanish billionaire businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of Inditex fashion group, best known for its chain of Zara (retailer), Zara and Bershka clothing and accessories shops. As ...

, and his first wife

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founder of

Inditex Industria de Diseño Textil, S.A. (Inditex; , ; ) is a Spanish multinational clothing company headquartered in Arteixo, Galicia, in Spain. Inditex, the biggest fast fashion group in the world, operates over 7,200 stores in 93 markets worldwide ...

, best known as the parent company of global fashion empire Zara, she is the richest woman in Spain and one of the wealthiest people in the world.

Career and personal life

Mera inherited a 7% stake in Inditex, from her mother Rosalie, after she died in 2013, as her brother Marcos was born with

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, and became Spain's richest woman with a net worth of $7.3 billion. Mera owns a share in Pharmaceutical company

PharmaMar PharmaMar is a Spanish Pharmaceutical Industry, pharmaceutical company headquartered in Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain. Founded in 1986 as a subsidiary of Zeltia, it absorbed its parent company and all its subsidiaries in a Reverse takeover, re ...

. Ortega spends time working with the foundation her mother founded for those with mental and physical disabilities, Fundación Paideia Galiza. Ortega earned a degree in psychology from the

University of Santiago de Compostela , established = , type = Public , budget = €228 million (2011) , rector = Prof. Dr. Antonio López Díaz , city = Santiago de Compostela , state = Galicia , country = Spain , undergrad = 23,835 , postgrad = 1,716 , doctoral = 2,697 ...

. She is married with three children and resides in

A Coruña A Coruña (; es, La Coruña ; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. A Coruña is the most populated city in Galicia and the second most populated municipality in the autonomous community and s ...

, Spain.

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