Rosa Lavín
Rosa Lavín, Iñigo Urkullu and Ramiro González
President of Confederation of Cooperative Companies of the Basque Country
Assumed office
2015
Personal details
Born
Rosa María Lavín Ibarra

1973
Sestao (Basque Country)
Spain
Children2
Parent(s)Rosa Mari Ibarra (mother)
Manuel Lavín (father)
ResidenceSestao (Spain)
Alma materMerciful Love School
University of the Basque Country (Lic., PG)
Superior Conservatory of Music
OccupationExecutive, financial executive, businesswoman

Rosa María Lavín Ibarra (born in 1973) is a Spanish executive and businesswoman.

Since 2015, she is President of the Confederation of Cooperative Companies of the Basque Country, the Basque social economy business organization. She is the first woman to hold this position, and the first woman to lead a business organization in the Basque Country and in Spain.[1][2]

Previously, she held the position of president of the Federation of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi (ERKIDE), being also the first woman to hold the position.[3][4][5]

She is a member of the board of directors of the Spanish Confederation of Social Economy Companies (CEPES), the Spanish business organization of social economy companies.[6][7]

She is also the chief financial officer (CFO) and vice president of the company SSI Group, among other corporate positions.[8][9][10][11]

She is a member of the Working Group of Women Leaders of the Social Economy launched in 2023 by the second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy of the Government of Spain Yolanda Díaz.[12][13]

Early life and education

Rosa Lavín was born in 1973 in Sestao, Biscay, Basque Country (Spain). She attended the Merciful Love School (Colegio Amor Misericordioso) in Sestao, a Basque private Catholic school, belonging to the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of Merciful Love.

She graduated from the University of the Basque Country with a bachelor's degree in economics. Later, she completed a postgraduate degree in social economy, cooperative companies and labor companies also at the University of the Basque Country.[14]

Lavín also studied music and piano at the Municipal Conservatory of Sestao and later at the Municipal Conservatory of Bilbao, where she studied piano, which made it compatible with her university degree in economics.[15] This came from the family, since her sister and her mother are also pianists (her mother plays the church organ and is a member of the parish choir).

Career

Very attached to the Basque business field, from a young age she dedicated herself to the world of business, focusing on cooperative companies and public companies and private-equity firms, as well as the chief financial officer (CFO) in several companies, also with a presence on board of directors (among others, in those of Eroski in the Mondragón Corporation, of venture capital companies and seed capital companies) and also as a liquidator of companies.

In 1998 she started working at "SSI Group". She is currently the economic-financial director (CFO), director and vice president of the company Grupo SSI.[16][17][11] She is also a member of the board of directors of the Elkar-Lan company, of the HAZIBIDE Seed Capital Company and of the SEED CAPITAL Venture Capital Company.[11]

Her greatest notoriety came from the field of business organizations and employers' organization. She is a member of different business organizations and federations of social economy companies. In 2019 she was elected president of the Federation of Cooperative Companies of the Basque Country (ERKIDE), being the first woman to hold the position.[18][19][20] In 2020, ERKIDE became part of the Confederation of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi.

Chairperson of the Confederation of Cooperative Companies of the Basque Country

In 2015 Rosa Lavín was elected president of the Confederation of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi, the Basque social economy business community, becoming the first woman to hold this position since its creation in 1996.[21]

In this way, she presides over one of the two Basque employers' organizations (the other is the Basque Business Confederation ConfeBasque), which includes banking entities, credit companies, labor, associated work and others, among them the largest is the Mondragon Corporation.[22]

The Confederation of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi represents all the companies of social economy in the Basque Country (it brings together almost two thousand companies), as it does the Spanish Confederation of Social Economy Companies in Spain or the Social Economy Europe in Europe.[23][24][25][26][27][28][29]

Rosa Lavín (right) together with the President of the Mondragon Corporation Iñigo Ucín (left) and the Minister of Labor and Justice of the Basque Government, Mª Jesús San José (middle).

She has appeared several times in the Basque Parliament, especially with the elaboration of the new law of cooperatives of the year 2019.[30][31][32] She is a member of the Basque government agency Superior Council of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi and also of other councils and economic-business commissions of the Basque Government.[33][34] With all this, she has acquired great notoriety in the business world, both Basque and Spanish.[35][36][37][38][39]

In 2022, at the presentation of the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE) at the Palacio de la Moncloa (Madrid), together with Pedro Sánchez, Nadia Calviño and Yolanda Díaz, she defended the participation of cooperative companies in the elaboration of public policies.[40]

In addition, Lavín is member of the board of directors of the Spanish Confederation of Social Economy Companies (CEPES), the Spanish employers' organization.[6][7]

She is a member of the Working Group of Women Leaders of the Social Economy launched in 2023 by the second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy of the Government of Spain Yolanda Díaz[12], a group of 26 women leaders in the social economy for the implementation of advances in gender equality in the social economy.[12][13]

In 2015, when she was appointed president of the Confederation of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi, she became the first woman to lead a business organization in the Basque Country and also one of the first women to lead an employers' association in Spain. Among the first women to assume the presidency of an employer association in Spain, Carmen Moreno in Seville in 2017 at the head of ASCONSE, Ana Correa in Murcia in 2019 at the head of COEC, Tamara Yagüe in Vizcaya in 2020 at the head of FVEM, María Jesús Lorente Ozcariz in Zaragoza in 2021 leading Cepyme Zaragoza and Carolina Pérez Toledo in Vizcaya in 2021 leading Cebek.

Personal life

She lives in Sestao. She is married and has two children.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Domaika, Eva (2023-01-05). "Rosa Lavín (Konfekoop): "Un 70 por ciento de la población de Euskadi tiene relación con las cooperativas"". cadena SER (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  2. ↑ "Rosa Lavin: "El modelo cooperativo es un modelo de futuro"". Crónica Vasca (in Spanish). 2021-07-17. Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  3. ↑ Aja, Xabier (2021-06-21). "Rosa Lavin: "El modelo cooperativo ha demostrado que resiste mejor las crisis"". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  4. ↑ Donostia, Entrevista de Maialen Mariscal / (2020-06-01). ""Demandamos apoyo institucional para reconvertir en cooperativas las empresas en crisis"". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  5. ↑ Alda, Julio Díaz de (2019-12-15). "Rosa Lavín: "Necesitábamos una ley que nos diera cintura para competir en el mundo"". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-16.
  6. 1 2 "Presentación de la "Hoja de ruta por la igualdad efectiva entre hombres y mujeres en la Economía Social" • Donostia - San Sebastián - Capital de la Economía Social". www.sansebastiancapitaleconomiasocial.es (in European Spanish). 2023-06-08. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  7. 1 2 "Mujeres líderes de la Economía Social – CEPES Aragón". economiasocialaragon.es. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  8. ↑ "7/10 Social Economy as an Industrial Ecosystem". Social Economy Europe. 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  9. ↑ "Rosa Lavin". World Cooperative Congress 2021. 2021-11-22. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
  10. ↑ SSI, Grupo (2019-05-31). "Rosa Lavín, presidenta de ERKIDE - cooperativismo". Grupo SSI (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  11. 1 2 3 SSI, Grupo (2017-10-22). "Rosa Lavín en Erkide, las cooperativas en Euskadi". Grupo SSI (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  12. 1 2 3 "Yolanda Díaz pone en marcha un grupo de 26 mujeres líderes en economía social: "Hoy las mujeres son visibilizadas"". Europa Press. 2023-06-02. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  13. 1 2 "El Grupo de mujeres líderes de la Economía Social celebró su tercera reunión| Actualidad Observatorio | Observatorio Español de la Economía Social". www.observatorioeconomiasocial.es. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
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  15. ↑ "Rosa Lavin: "El modelo cooperativo es un modelo de futuro"". Crónica Vasca (in Spanish). 2021-07-17. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  16. ↑ "Rosa Lavin: "El modelo cooperativo es un modelo de futuro"". Crónica Vasca (in Spanish). 2021-07-17. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  17. ↑ Martínez, Jon Mujika / José Mari (2022-05-05). "El Grupo SSI celebra el 10º aniversario de Home Care Lab". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  18. ↑ Gipuzkoa, Noticias de (21 June 2021). "Rosa Lavín: "El modelo cooperativo ha demostrado que resiste mejor las crisis"". www.noticiasdegipuzkoa.eus (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  19. ↑ "Un canto a la diversidad en Lehendakaritza". El Correo (in Spanish). 2019-12-21. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  20. ↑ "Las cooperativas reivindican su modelo "resistente" para contribuir a la recuperación". EXPANSION (in Spanish). 2020-10-14. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  21. ↑ "Rosa Lavín: "Necesitábamos una ley que nos diera cintura para competir en el mundo"". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). 2019-12-15. Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  22. ↑ Deia (June 2020). ""Demandamos apoyo institucional para reconvertir en cooperahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rosa_Lav%C3%ADn_I%C3%B1igo_Uc%C3%ADn.jpgtivas las empresas en crisis"". www.deia.eus (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-11-01. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
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  24. ↑ Lavín, Rosa. "Rosa Lavín". revistas.eleconomista.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2021-11-01.
  25. ↑ H, Rosa Lavín / 18 nov 2020 / 14:37. "Todos los ingredientes para encarar el futuro desde el mundo cooperativo". revistas.eleconomista.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2021-11-01.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  26. ↑ Nuevatribuna (29 May 2022). "La Economía Social aumentará su peso en el PIB hasta un 11%". Nuevatribuna (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  27. ↑ EFE, Agencia (2022-05-27). "El Gobierno destinará 800 millones al nuevo perte que impulsa los cuidados". COPE (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  28. ↑ CEPES (2022-06-01). "En marcha el PERTE para la Economía Social que propiciará su crecimiento hasta alcanzar el 11% del PIB". La Opinión de Murcia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-16.
  29. ↑ "Díaz aboga por expandir la Economía Social en la que Euskadi es "referente internacional"". Europa Press. 2023-02-24. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
  30. ↑ "Konfekoop-eko eta CEPESeko ordezkarien agerraldia Lan eta Justizia Batzordean". www.legebiltzarra.eus (in Basque). Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  31. ↑ Alda, Julio Díaz de (2019-12-15). "Rosa Lavín: "Necesitábamos una ley que nos diera cintura para competir en el mundo"". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-25.
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  33. ↑ CHORRO, LEIRE (2018-07-05). "El cooperativismo vasco supera los 51.000 empleos, por encima de antes de la crisis". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  34. ↑ "Los partidos políticos vascos acompañan al movimiento cooperativo en una nueva jornada de Forokoop| Actualidad Observatorio | Observatorio Español de la Economía Social". www.observatorioeconomiasocial.es. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  35. ↑ Fiestras, Joseba (2019-12-21). "Un canto a la diversidad en Lehendakaritza". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  36. ↑ "Konfekoop cerró el año pasado con 1.259 cooperativas y generó 2.529 nuevos empleos". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Europa Press. 2021-05-21. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  37. ↑ "Las cooperativas reivindican su modelo "resistente" para contribuir a la recuperación". EXPANSION (in Spanish). 2020-10-14. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  38. ↑ Nuevatribuna (2022-05-29). "La Economía Social aumentará su peso en el PIB hasta un 11%". Nuevatribuna (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  39. ↑ "L'Executiu vol professionalitzar i donar un sou a les dones que fan cures informals". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
  40. ↑ "Konfekoop pide participar en la definición de las políticas públicas". Diario de Noticias de Álava (in Spanish). Europa Press. 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
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