Ramiro Sanchez De Lerin Garcia Ovies

Biography

Mr. Ramiro Sanchez de Lerin Garcia Ovies serves as Director of Telefonica Brasil S.A. since April 28, 2016. He is General Secretary and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Telefonica SA. He is also a member of the Executive Committee. He began his career at Arthur Andersen, working for its Audit department and subsequently to the Tax department. In 1982, he became legal adviser to the State Government (King Counsel - Abogado del Estado) and began working for the local tax authorities in Madrid (Delegacion de Hacienda de Madrid). He was assigned to the State Secretariat for the European Communities and later to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the private sector, from 1988 onwards, he was the Secretary General and the Secretary of the Board of Directors of public companies Elosua SA, Tabacalera SA, Altadis, SA and Xfera Moviles, SA. He worked as a professor at the Catholic Institute of Directors and Management Companies (Catholic Instituto Catolico de Administraion y Direccion de Empresas - ICADE), and the Institute of Business and School of Public Finance (Instituto de Empresa and Escuela de Hacienta Publica). He is a member of the Fundacao Nacional del Vidrio Foundation and Padre Arrupe Foundation. After working as CEO of Tabacalera along with Mr. Cesar Alierta, in 2003 he joined Telefonica Group as Group General Counsel and Executive Committee Member of the Executive.

Research Interest

Business and Management