Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría

Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría combines an extensive career as a lawyer with outstanding public activity. She is a counsel for the state on leave of absence.

She became a member of the Body of Counsel for the State in 1994.

Linked to Cuatrecasas since 2019, first as a partner and member of the board of directors, and currently as external counsel, Soraya advises General Management on institutional and strategic matters.

She is an independent member of the board of directors of Moeve and a member of its auditing, compliance, ethics and risk committee.

She is an elected member of the Spanish Council of State since 2018 and a member of its Research Commission.

Soraya was vice president of the Spanish government and minister of the presidency from 2011 to 2018. In addition, she was minister for regional administrations (2016-2018) and spokesperson for the government (2011-2016).

She was a parliamentary spokesperson for the Spanish People’s Party during the government’s ninth legislature.

A former associate lecturer of EU policies and administrative law at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (“UC3M”), Soraya currently presides over the Cuatrecasas-UC3M research chair of corporate and finance law, and tax and international arbitration law.

She is a member of the board of the Council of Americas and participates in various forums and conferences on geopolitics and crisis management.

In recent publications, she has co-authored Miradas paralelas (Parallel views), Gobernanza económica, regulación y administración de justicia (Economic governance, regulation and justice administration) and Antes de la próxima pandemia: Riesgos geopolíticos (Before the next pandemic: geopolitical risks).