Manuel Ventero Velasco

External Member of the Fundación MAPFRE Board of Trustees

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Member of the Fundación MAPFRE Board of Trustees

Personal details:
Name and surnames: Manuel Ventero Velasco.
Date and place of birth: Ávila, November 6, 1961.

Education:
Degree in Audiovisual Communication and Labor Relations Specialist from the University of Salamanca.
PhD in Law from Rey Juan Carlos University.
Public Leadership Executive Program (PELP) at Instituto de Empresa Business School (2015-2016).
ICEX-CECO Senior Management Training Program (PADE) (2016-2017).

Main positions:
Managing Director of the RTVE Symphony Orchestra and Choir since 2018.
General Director of Communication and Institutional Relations at Radiotelevisión Española (2013-2018) and, as such, in charge of Parliamentary Relations; Institutional Relations; Media Relations; Internal Communication; Corporate Image; Social Responsibility and Volunteering; International Relations; and Public Relations and Protocol; as well as of the Instituto Oficial de Radiodifusión y Televisión and the RTVE Symphony Orchestra and Choir.
General Director of Radio Nacional de España (2012-2013).
Director of the News Services at Radio Nacional de España (2000-2004).
Director of Radio Nacional de España in Andalusia (1998-2000).

Previous positions:
Associate professor of the subjects Analysis and opinion journalism and Theory and practice of audiovisual information at URJC (2004-2012).
Director of the Official University Master’s Degree in Radio at URJC (2006-2012).
Collaborating lecturer with a dozen Master’s degrees and business schools: ICEX, ESIC, US, UEX, UHU, Escuela de Negocios PONS, Villanueva, CEU,
UFV, UCAV, etc. Most notably, as lecturer on “Company” in the Master’s Degree in Radio at Complutense University (2000-2012) and Health and Safety Management at the University of Salamanca (1998-2002).
Member of the Alumni Social Council at the University of Salamanca since 2019.

Other positions of responsibility:
Director and presenter of the program “Siluetas”, for Radio Nacional de España (2004-2012).
Political analyst for various radio and television stations, as well as columnist for El Adelanto de Salamanca, La Razón, El Mundo, ABC and El Debate.
Member of Fundación de Ayuda contra la Drogadicción (FAD) Media Commission (2013-2018).
Member of the Media Commission of the High Commissioner for Marca España (2013- 2018).