Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado / Spain

He earned a Bachelor’s in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1987. His professional career got underway in 1986 when he took over the reins of the cultural services company Ikeder, a job he held until 1994, when he joined the Reina Sofía Deputy Directorate General of Museums, where he remained until 1996. From 1996 until 2002 he was the Director of the Fine Arts Museum of Bilbao. In 2002 he was appointed Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado, a post he still holds today. [Spain]