Alfonso de Castro González

Independent Director

He holds a degree in Economics and Business Sciences from the Universidad de Valladolid. He holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the Instituto de Empresa (IE) and completed the General Management Program at IESE.

Professional career

He has developed an extensive international career of over 30 years in different financial systems, such as the United States, Spain, Latin American countries (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela), Poland, the United Kingdom, and Asia.

His main areas of expertise are credit, structural, and strategic risks.

He has experience in all segments (retail, corporate, wholesale, regulatory supervision, risk supervision), as well as in building high-performance teams in different geographies and central service areas.

Since 1991, he has had a long career in various units of the Santander Group.

After holding different responsibilities in Spain and Mexico, between 2005 and 2013 he was Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of Santander Spain.

He later moved to the United States for two years, first serving as Chief Risk Management Officer of Sovereign Bank (Santander Bank, N.A.) and then performing roles at Santander Holdings US.

In the following years, he held various international responsibilities from Madrid, including Chief Credit Officer (CCO) for Europe for the Santander Group between 2021 and 2023. In recent years, his activity has been focused on the boards of directors of different Santander Group units in Peru.