Meeting of experts on good governance and transparency: autonomy of central banks

Deputy General Secretary and Associate Director General of the Banco de España, and Deputy Secretary to the Governing Council and the Executive Commission.

He holds a degree in Law from Universidad de Salamanca. Short-cycle graduate in Public and Budget Accounting. Lawyer and Auditor. IESE Senior Management Programme.

He joined the Banco de España as Legal Counsel, after which he held different positions, including Deputy Director of the Legal Service and Director of the Technical Secretariat.

He is an expert in different central bank and financial supervisory areas and is or has been responsible for such areas in the Banco de España. These include governance of public institutions and functioning of their governing bodies; transparency and access to information; internal compliance and compliance with ethical codes; documentary policy and e-administration; and corporate social responsibility. In the financial and banking area, he has been responsible for financial institutions’ authorisation processes and registrations, corporate governance control, bank crisis management and prevention of money laundering.

He is a professor at, inter alia, the Judicial School and the Centre for Legal Studies of the Ministry of Justice, and is a regular speaker at various renowned national and international fora.

Mr. Marino currently serves as an advisor to the director general of CEMLA In 2011 and 2012, Roberto Marino was The Special Representative for the Presidency of the G20 in Mexico.

Its main functions were to promote an open dialogue with non-G20 countries, international and regional organizations, the private sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other members of civil society. Until mid-2011, Mr. Marino was Manager of International Affairs at the Bank of Mexico.

In the early nineties, he was executive director representing Mexico, Spain, Venezuela and Central America on the IMF's executive board.

He has been a senior fellow at the German Development Institute, where he conducted research on the IMF's pre-emptive lending facilities.

Mr. Marino undertook doctoral studies in Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and earned his bachelor's degree in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

Mr. Ruiz is currently the President of the Royal Institute Elcano. He has been member of its Scientific Counsel for a decade. The Royal Institute Elcano is the leader Spanish think-tank in international and strategic studies and a reference center of critical thinking in Europe and all over the world.

He is an economist member of the Commercial Technicians and State Economists Corps. During his professional life he worked in the Ministry of Economy, in the private sector – as Chief Economist in Argentaria, AFI and Banco de Santander in Latin America- and more recently as Chief Economist and Director of the Investigation Department in Inter-American Development Bank. He is currently member of the Advisory Council on Economic Affairs of the First Vice-President of the Spanish Government.

He has a long experience in European and global international institutions, He is member of several management boards of public and private companies. He has been a professor and also President of the Social Council of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. He is a frequent contributor in the media and has been member of the Editorial Boards of Foreign Policy, Prisa and Grupo Recoletos.

She is a lawyer from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, with master´s degree in

law from the University of Freiburg (Germany).

She es Currently Deputy Executive Governor of Banco de la República. She served as an advisory lawyer of the Office of de Secretary of the Board of Directors and technical deputy director of the Foreign Exchange Department of Banco de la República, general secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, advisor of the Minister of Finance and Public Credit, among others.

She has been professor of foreign exchange law at the universities of Los Andes, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and El Rosario.

Rodolfo was born in Mexico City. He studied Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and a Master in Business Law at the Panamerican Univeristy (UP).

He also did postgraduate studies in Financial and Banking Law at the UP, as well as the Management Development Program (D1) at IPADE Business School.

After working 7 years for a private lawyer’s firm in Mexico City, he joined Banco de México in 1997 where he has had a lengthy career: he has been Lawyer, Litigation Chief Officer and Litigation Subdivision’s Manager at the Directorate of Legal Affairs; Transparency Analysis and Promotion Division’s Manager at the Transparency Unit, and Internal Regulatory Control Division´s Manager and Internal Control Director at the Directorate General of Comptroller and Risk Management, this last appointment since January 2019.

He has also taught in various law schools in Mexico, and had been speaker at different national and international forums.

Cristina Hijosa Pedregosa (Madrid, 1975) is the Head of the Institutional Secretariat Division of the Banco de España, which she joined in 2004 as Legal Advisor, after several years of practice in the private sector, mainly as a lawyer in the financial department of the Spanish law firm Gómez-Acebo & Pombo.

As of 2009, she has held different positions linked to the secretariat of the governing bodies of the Banco de España and the advice to its members, as well as internal compliance –including the management of the ethical codes of our Institution and the internal activities regarding the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism– and, more recently, the coordination of social responsibility actions carried out by the Bank of Spain.

Marisa Boronat Velert joined the Banco de España in 1989 and since May 2018, she has been the Head of the Governance and Transparency Division and the Data Protection Officer. Previously, she was head of the Litigation Unit.

In her professional practice she has focused on a wide range of administrative law and banking regulation matters, and especially in the fields of transparency and accountability as applied to central banks and data protection. In the framework of the latter, she carried out the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation at the Bank of Spain.

Marisa holds a degree in Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Master's degree in Legal Practice from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is also a lecturer on a master's degree at the Universidad Nebrija and a regular speaker at various prestigious national and international forums.

She has been a member of the Madrid Bar Association since 1990.

Licentiate in Law and master’s degree in community law and human rights from

the University of Costa Rica.

He was a university professor of introductory law, international law and human rights. He was an advisor to the First Vice Presidency, in the Legislative Assembly, in the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice and in the General Superintendence of Securities of Costa Rica.

Since 2005 he works as a legal advisor to the Executive Secretariat of the Central American Monetary Council. He has combined his professional activities with projects for the dissemination of reading and literary and musical creation.

Division Manager of Administration and Technology at the Central Bank of Chile since January 2019. Its current responsibilities include Planning and Management Control, Procurement, Accounting and Technology.

Before 2019, she was the bank´s Manager of Operations and Payment Systems, where she oversaw the back office of domestic open market operations, international reserves and foreign funds operations. She was also responsible for the operation of the High Value Payment System.

Mrs. Iturriaga joined the bank in 2005 as the Head of Financial Markets Department and became the editor of the Financial Stability Report. She also led the group monitoring nonfinancial companies and participated in several projects involving the bank, other institutions, and regulators, such as the implementation of the Transparency Act and the construction of Financial Soundness Indicators for the IMF.

Prior to 2005, Mrs. Iturriaga was an equity analyst, specializing in the most relevant sectors of the equity market (energy, retail, and telecommunications). She was also into corporate banking participating in M&A and project financing and previously, worked in consultancy services related to economics and finance. Her first job was at the Research Department of the Central Bank of Chile.

Mrs. Iturriaga graduated from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile as an economist and also holds a Master degree in Economics from the same university.

Manager of Planning and Accounting Operations the Central Bank of Chile since July 2020. As such leads the Accounting, Procurement, Processes and Planning and Management Control teams.

He is an Industrial Civil Engineer and Master in Financial Economics from Universidad de Santiago de Chile, and holds also a Master's degree in Management Control from Universidad de Chile.

He joined the Bank in February 2005 as a senior analyst at the International Treasury Department, where he led and implemented the International Reserves Administration System and their set up to be compliance with IFRS accounting standards.

As from December 2010, he served as Head of the Operations Department of the Operations and Payment Systems Department, leading the registration and accounting processes of the Bank's financial operations, both domestic and international.

Before joining the Bank, he performed different positions related with processes and finance on public sector (Internal Revenue Services as well as in private sector (Banking and Retail).

María del Carmen Bernini graduated as a lawyer from Universidad de Buenos

Aires in 1985.

She has been working at the Central Bank of Argentina (BCRA) since 1976, where she held different positions.

From June 13, 2017 to date, she has been serving as Alternate Responsible for Access to Public Information, reporting to the General Management Office.

She is a lecturer in the course on the Law on the Right of Access to Public Information aimed at the BCRA’s staff.

She gave a presentation on the “New Legislation on Access to Public Information in Argentina - Law No. 27,275” at the XIII Meeting of Central Bank Legal Advisors” (CEMLA/BCRA; Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 11-13, 2017).”

She also participated in the Meeting on Document and Archives Management at Central Banks (Bank of Spain/CEMLA) in October 2021.

B.A. in Political Sciences at Universidad del Salvador (USAL). Studied for a

Master in Public Policy Administraton at Universidad de San Andrés (UDESA).

Worked at the Honorable Cámara de Diputados de la Nación (National Congress) and at the Gabinet of the President of the Banco Nación.

Working since 2010 at the Central Bank of Argentina, currently at the General Management.

Also, collaborates with the Bank's Presidency as the connection point in- between the Bank and the Ministerial Chief of Staff as well as the Anti Corruption Office, promoting public ethics, integrity and transparency on those connections as a continuous and systematic plan.

A Central Bank of Brazil employee since 2006, Gustavo Martins was appointed

Deputy Secretary to the Board and National Monetary Council in 2018.

He manages the team that leads the digital transformation underway at the Secretariat, having achieved successful results, with total migration of processes to digital media and actions to increase information security.

Graduated in civil engineering, he took a specialization course in financial administration at Fundação Getúlio Vargas and a master's degree in economic policy at the University of Illinois in the United States. He worked for years in international relations, especially in the area of international technical cooperation.

His public career began at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the Brazilian Cooperation Agency, where he worked on triangular and multilateral cooperation projects with relevant international agencies and organizations as United Nations.

At the Central Bank, he also acted as an advisor to the Department of International Affairs in negotiations within the scope of Mercosur. Also at the Central Bank, he worked as advisor in the Governor’s Office and in the international affairs Deputy Governor Office.

He is especially interested in initiatives to modernize and gain efficiency in processes and information security.

Jorge Monge Bonilla is the director of Institutional Relations at the Central Bank

of Costa Rica (BCCR).

He obtained his Bachelor´s degree in Business Administration at the Universidad Autónoma de Centroamérica, following with his MBA at the Postgraduate Foundation at the Universidad de Costa Rica.

For the last 40 years, he served at the Secretary Department of BCCR, being Secretary General of the Bank for 27 years: he coordinated and monitored all governance bodies related to the BCCR, including its Board of Directors, Auditing and Risk Committees, as well as the National Council for Supervision of the Financial System (governing board of Bank Superintendencies, pension insurance and securities) and its corresponding Financial Stability Committee.

Currently as Director of Institutional Relations at BCCR, he enhances the improvement of client relations, interinstitutional exchanges, and fosters a growing learning community with other international Central Banks and international organizations.

Head of the Archives and Document Management Division. Banco de España.

She holds a degree in Geography and History, specialist in Medieval History from Universidad Complutense de Madrid (1989/1994). Master in Archives from Archivo Histórico Nacional, Spain (1994/1996), Master in Cultural Management, Tourism, Heritage and Nature from Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset (1998/1999) and Program for Management Development in Public Administration from ESADE Business School (2010/2011).

She worked as archivist at the Archivo Histórico Nacional and at the Spanish Parliament between 1994 and 1997, between 1997 and 1999 she worked as information specialist at FAES Foundation. From 1999 until 2005 she worked as senior consulting expert in record management for the consulting firm Indra.

Since 2005 she is working at Banco de España, first as specialist in document management, later as Head of Record Management Unit and since 2013 as Head of the Archives and Document Management Division.

She is an expert in archives, projects management, record management, electronic administration and digital transformation. She is the author of several articles and speeches in the above presented at different congress, seminars and workshops. Mentor in different programs focusing her collaboration in the Transforma España program.