Events

Energy and competitiveness in Spain and Europe

Pedro Antonio Merino, Jordi Sevilla Segura and Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta

The Rafael del Pino Foundation is organising the dialogue "Energy and Competitiveness in Spain and Europe" on 19 June 2025 at 5 p.m. with the participation of Pedro Antonio Merino, Jordi Sevilla Segura y Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta.

Pedro Antonio Merino holds a degree in Economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and an MBA from the Instituto de Administración de Empresas (IADE). He has been a Commercial Technician and State Economist (TCEE) since 1989. He has also taken several courses in international economics at CEMFI and Harvard. He is currently Director of Studies and Chief Economist at Repsol. In the financial field, he worked in the Directorate General of the Treasury and Financial Policy where he was Deputy Assistant Director of Public Debt and Deputy Director of Relations with International Monetary Organisations. He was also secretary of the Interministerial Commission for the introduction of the euro in the Public Administrations, advisor to the European Investment Bank (EIB), alternate member of the Monetary Committee of the European Union and advisor to the Executive Director for Spain at the International Monetary Fund. In 2000 he joined Repsol as Director of Studies and Chief Economist, where he has carried out and continues to carry out macroeconomic and energy forecasting and analysis, especially oil and gas, as well as advising on strategic issues and the geopolitical environment.Antonio is a member of the International Association of Energy Economists (IAEE), the American Association of Business Economists, the Oxford Energy Policy Club, the Spanish Economists Group, a reviewer for the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook and a member of the International Energy Forum's long-term energy forecasting analysis group.

Jordi Sevilla Segura is an economist from the University of Valencia and has been a civil servant in the Cuerpo Superior de Técnicos Comerciales y Economistas del Estado (Senior Corps of Commercial Technicians and State Economists) since 1983. He has held various positions in the public administration, including advisor for International Economic Relations in the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government (1985-1991), head of the Cabinet of the Minister of Agriculture (1991-1993) and director of the Cabinet of the Minister of Economy and Finance (1993-1996). He was a Member of Congress for Castellón (2000-2009) and Minister of Public Administration (2004-2007). In the private sector, he has been senior counselor at PwC (2009-2015) and vice-president at Llorente y Cuenca (2016-2018). He also chaired Red Eléctrica de España (2018-2020) and currently heads LLYC's Intelligence Unit.

Nemesio Fernández-Cuesta holds a degree in Economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid and is a member of the Corps of Commercial Technicians and State Economists. Throughout his career, he has combined senior public service with the management of large companies, especially in the energy sector. He began his professional career in the institutional sphere, holding various positions of responsibility in the Ministry of Economy and Finance, as well as in international organisations. In the private sector, he has held top-level positions, most notably as Director General of Foreign Trade, Chairman of Empresa Nacional de Petróleos de España (ENPETROL), and Secretary of State for Energy and Mineral Resources in the 1990s. Subsequently, he joined Repsol, where he was Director General and later Executive Vice-President. He has also been chairman of the Spanish Electricity Industry Association (UNESA) and has served on several boards of directors of companies in the energy and industrial sector.

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