José Luis Escrivá has been Governor of the Bank of Spain since September 2024. He holds a degree in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid and began his professional career at the Bank of Spain, where he worked as an economist in the Monetary and Financial Studies Department and as Head of the Monetary and Financial Research Division.

He served as an adviser to the European Monetary Institute, the precursor to the European Central Bank, and subsequently as Head of the ECB’s Monetary Policy Division. Between 2012 and 2014, he was Director for the Americas at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. He also served as President of the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) from 2014 to 2020 and as President of the Network of EU Independent Fiscal Institutions from 2015 to 2019.

José Luis Escrivá served as Spain’s Minister for Inclusion, Social Security and Migration from 2020 to 2023, and as Minister for Digital Transformation and the Civil Service from 2023 to 2024.