María José Esteruelas

Independent Director at Applus+

Ms Esteruelas holds a degree in Industrial Electrical Engineering from ICAI (Madrid). She has a Master’s degree in Operations from the Instituto de Empresa (Madrid) and a General Management Executive Programme from the IESE (Madrid).

Ms Esteruelas currently serves as Director of Energy at Ferrovial Construcción, a position she holds since February 2021.

Most of her career has been at Abengoa, which she joined in 1997, performing a variety of senior positions, becoming General Director for America in charge of all subsidiary companies in the continent and integrating the Executive Committee. Previously she was CEO of the Power Division and formerly Executive Vice President of Latin America.

From July 2014 to December 2017, she was member of the Atlantica Yield Board of Directors appointed by Abengoa.

She was appointed as Director of Applus+ on 20th February 2019.