María Dolores Dancausa


María Dolores Dancausa Treviño is a Spanish executive. She is the current CEO of Bankinter, a position she has held since 2010.

Career

Dancausa holds a degree in Law from the Colegio Universitario San Pablo CEU. She participated in several management programmes at Harvard Business School and completed an Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD. She began her career at Banco Exterior de España before joining Bankinter. She was appointed as CEO of Linea Directa Aseguradora in 2008, becoming the first female CEO in the auto insurance sector. In October 2010, she was appointed as CEO of Bankinter. At the time she was the only woman leading an IBEX 35 company.
In 2013, Dancausa was chosen by Forbes as the best CEO in Spain. In 2016, she finished third.