{"id":8705,"date":"2026-04-21T05:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/8705\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T05:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:19:40","slug":"enrique-goni-new-chairman-of-fundacion-telefonica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/8705\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrique Go\u00f1i, new chairman of Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica<\/a> has appointed Enrique Go\u00f1i Beltr\u00e1n de Garizurieta as its new Executive Chairman. Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica, whose purpose is to make a more humane world by promoting inclusive digital development, works to respond to four major challenges: reducing the educational gap, improving employability, fostering social and digital integration and promoting art, culture and thought.<\/p>\n

Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica is committed to technology as a means for social integration and evolution through which to expand skills, provide more opportunities and reduce inequalities.\u00a0 In this new stage, led by Enrique Go\u00f1i, it also aspires to become the European benchmark in the promotion of strategies that enhance technological competitiveness and social impact, consolidating Spain as the epicentre of debate and action in responsible technological innovation.<\/p>\n

Enrique Go\u00f1i pointed out that we have in Europe \u201cthe talent, the capacity and the responsibility to promote a model of technological development that is both ethical and competitive at a global level, it is our time\u201d. Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica will strengthen its role as a catalyst for public policies and business strategies aimed at strengthening the Spanish and European technological innovation ecosystem and ensuring that it is aligned with the digital rights of EU citizens.<\/p>\n

Together with the new president, the Board of Trustees of Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica is made up as follows. Ex officio trustees (in accordance with their position at Telef\u00f3nica, S.A.): Marc Thomas Murtra Millar, Emilio Gayo Rodr\u00edguez;\u00a0 Eduardo Navarro de Carvalho; \u00c1lvaro Echevarr\u00eda Ar\u00e9valo; Laura Abasolo Garc\u00eda de Baquedano; Trinidad Jim\u00e9nez Garc\u00eda-Herrera; Marta Machicot Arbizu; Juan Azcue Vich; Sebasti\u00e1n Muriel Herrero and, as Elected Trustees: Enrique Go\u00f1i Beltr\u00e1n de Garizurieta (Chairman); Javier Nadal Ari\u00f1o; Javier Solana Madariaga; Julio Linares L\u00f3pez; Luc\u00eda Figar de Lacalle; Carmen Moren\u00e9s Giles; Carmen Garc\u00eda de Andr\u00e9s; Non-Trustee Secretary: Pablo de Carvajal Gonz\u00e1lez; Non-Patron Deputy Secretary: Isabel Salazar P\u00e1ramo.<\/p>\n

Luis Angel Prendes Arroyo remains in his position as managing director of the entity.<\/p>\n

Biography<\/p>\n

Enrique Go\u00f1i Beltr\u00e1n de Garizurieta is deputy to the president of Criteria Caixa and president of the Hermes Institute, tasks that he will continue to perform. As founder of the Hermes Foundation, he also chairs its Board of Trustees, an institution committed to the promotion of rights in the digital sphere.<\/p>\n

He holds a degree in Law from the University of Navarra and a PADE from IESE. He studied Strategic Management at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and Harvard Business School. He began his professional career at Barclays Bank and later became Deputy General Manager and CEO of the MutuAvenir group of companies. In 1996 he joined Agrupaci\u00f3n Mutua as Deputy Director and in 1998 he was appointed Deputy General Manager of the Group. In 2000 he was appointed General Manager of the Corporate Business Group of Caja Navarra and since 2002 he has been General Manager of Caja de Ahorros de Navarra. In 2010, together with the directors of Caja Canarias and Caja Burgos, he founded the Banca C\u00edvica Group as Executive Chairman, a group to which Caja Sol later joined. Enrique Go\u00f1i has been Co-Chairman and CEO of the Banca C\u00edvica Group and CEO of Caja Navarra. He is a member of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome and of the advisory committee of the Latam Global Leadership and Competitiveness Program at Georgetown University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica has appointed Enrique Go\u00f1i Beltr\u00e1n de Garizurieta as its new Executive Chairman. Fundaci\u00f3n Telef\u00f3nica, whose purpose…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[156,5305,155],"class_list":["post-8705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-telefonica","tag-analysts","tag-fundacion-telefonica","tag-telefonica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}