Current Debate Speaker: José Simón

José Simón

• SVP Global Gas Iberdrola

-Bachelor in Law and in Business and Administration by ICADE- UPC Madrid.

-MBA by IESE Madrid.

-Master in International Leadership by IMD (Lausanne).

In 1993 he started his career as a Consultant for Arthur Andersen.

In 1997 he joined Iberdrola as Director for Corporate Planning dealing with Mergers and Acquisitions until September 2001, when he was appointed VP for Gas Procurement.

Mr. Simon has been the maximum responsible for the negotiations for all the existing long term LNG contracts of the Iberdrola portfolio, including for example, the agreements with Sonatrach, Nigeria LNG, ENI, Cheniere, and others of different nature such as the Isle of Grain regas capacity contract.

In December 2011 he became Global Gas Procurement, Coal and Carbon Director, responsible for all Iberdrola commodities procurement activities.

Since 2014, Mr. Simón is the Sr Vice President for Global Gas.
He therefore runs the Iberdrola Natural Gas and LNG activities worldwide, including pipe-gas and LNG supplies, operations and LNG trading and shipping activities globally.