We are delighted to welcome Ms Ana Botín, CEO of Santander UK to King’s College London to give a lecture on ‘The future of the UK economy and the role of entrepreneurs’.

Ms Botín has been the Chief Executive Officer of Santander UK plc since December 2010. Santander is one of Britain’s leading personal financial services companies and one of the largest providers of mortgages and savings in the UK. Ms Botín began her career in corporate and investment banking at JP Morgan in New York before joining Banco Santander in 1988. In 1999, Ms Botín partnered with internet entrepreneurs in an IT consultancy firm which she grew and sold to Indra, the leading Spanish technology company. During this period she also set up a €220million private equity fund, Suala, which focused on investment growth companies. From 2002 until moving to the UK in 2010, Ms Botín was Executive Chairman of Banesto. In July 2013 she was elected to the Board of Directors of the Coca Cola Company and is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the New York Stock Exchange. Ms Botín chairs and has founded three philanthropic organisations in Spain, which promote education and small businesses. She has been a trustee of the Mayor’s Fund for London since 2012. Ms Botín studied Economics at Bryn Mawr College and received her Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Santander is a generous supporter of UK universities and has donated over £500 million in the shape of scholarships, travel grants, support to special projects, academic and non-academic awards since 1997. This is part of Santander’s long-term commitment to higher education and the College and KCL Business Club has directly benefitted from this commitment.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a fascinating lecture.

To signup book online or send a mail to Kristina Mennell at eventrsvp@kcl.ac.uk by Tuesday October 1.

This amazing lecture is for FREE so secure your place as soon as possible.