OREANDA-NEWS. The current director of the Banco de España Legal Department, Roberto Ugena, has been appointed deputy director general of the Legal Services of the European Central Bank (ECB).

The Directorate General Legal Services comprises four divisions: Financial Law, Institutional Law, Supervisory Law and Legislation. The new deputy director general will be responsible chiefly for all matters pertaining to the latter two divisions.

Roberto Ugena is a graduate in Law and in Economics and Business Studies from the Madrid Pontificia Comillas–ICADE University and joined the Banco de España as a legal counsel in 2004. He has pursued his career in the Bank’s General Secretariat, occupying various positions in both the Secretariat of the Governing Bodies and in the internal legal affairs and advice divisions. He was appointed director of the Bank’s Legal Department in 2011. Moreover, he has sat on the Legal Committee of the European System of Central Banks since 2008 and acted as recording secretary to the FROB from 2009 to 2012.

Roberto Ugena’s appointment as deputy director general of the ECB’s Legal Services will be effective 1 March 2016.