- Senior Vice President of International Affairs and
Marketing, AREVA (June 1, 2008-present).
- Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World
Bank Group, Secretary General of the International Center
for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), (June
2006-May 2008)
- She was the first woman to serve as Spain’s Foreign
Minister (2002-2004) and, at the time, held the most
senior post ever filled by a woman in the Spanish government.
She has served as member of the Spanish
Parliament, where she chaired the Joint Committee of
the two Houses for European Union Affairs (2004-2006).
- As Prime Minister Aznar’s representative to the European
Convention and the Convention’s Presidium (2001-
2002), Ana Palacio was at the forefront of the debate on
the future of the European Union and actively participated
in the drafting and legal discussions pertaining the
reform of the European Treaties.
- As member of the European Parliament (1994-2002),
she has chaired the Legal Affairs and Internal Market
Committee and the Justice and Home Affairs Committee,
and was elected by her peers to chair in two half legislatures
the Conference of Committee Chairmen, the
Parliament’s most senior body for the coordination of its
legislative work. Inspired by legal legitimacy as the mark
of identity of the EU, her main addresses and reports have
pinpointed the legislation on internal market as well as
the security area, especially focused on justice and home
affairs and human rights.
- A lawyer by profession, specializing in EU internal market
law, Ana Palacio has held the most senior positions
in the governing bodies of the Madrid Bar, as well as the
European Bar (CCBE). She is an honorary member of the
Bar of England and Wales. She is member of the Board of
Trustees and former Executive President of the Academy
of European Law (ERA), and Distinguished Professor of
the European College in Parma.
- In January 2004 she was listed among the Wall Street
Journal’s 75 ‘global opinion leaders’. In October 2001 the
same newspaper, under the heading ‘Europe’s Lawyer’,
published an extensive feature article on her in its supplement
on ‘12 influential players on the world business
stage’.
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