BIOGRAPHY

Margarita de Cos is “Head of Major Donors Relations” at WWF Spain (World Wildlife Fund) and CEO of RAINSOFT SL (IT&Software development).  Previously she worked in the private sector, being member of the Board of Directors of several Spanish companies, and held different executive positions such as Director and General Manager of Fábrica Española de Confecciones, S.A. (manufacture of military uniforms), Manager of energy developments in FECSA (electrical company of Catalonia, Spain), Manager of corporate and foreign investment in Bufete Soler Padró (Law offices) and Managing Director of INAC, S.A (Clinical laboratory firm).

Ms de Cos is “Licenciada” in Political Sciences by Universidad Complutense, Madrid (Spain) and Master in Economics ( M.A.) by Carleton University, Ottawa (Canada) and is member of several management Associations (AED/CEDE, Intl Women’s Forum) She is also member of the Board of the Spanish chapter of  the European League for Economic Cooperation  (LECE) and of the International Planning Committee (IPC) of the GLOBAL SUMMIT OF WOMEN. In 2013 she was appointed as Chairwoman for Spain.

She was born in León, Spain (1951), is married and has 2 children and 5 grandchildren