Corporate governance

Born in Madrid in 1966. She holds a degree in Economic and Business Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, is a member of the Spanish Institute of Chartered Auditors (Instituto de Censores Jurado de Cuentas) and member of the IC-A.

She has completed a number of specialist courses and programmes (Management Programme at IE, Senior Executive Programme at ESADE, and Innovation Executive Programme at Babson University in Boston).

She was also a speaker and mentor on a number of specialist programmes (speaker on the Board Member Programme at ESADE, speaker on the Women to Watch Programme at PwC, Women Managers mentor on the Promociona Project, and management mentor on PwC’s Talent Programme); She was also a member of the PwC Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

She began her professional career in the Auditing department of PWC. In 2008 she became a member of the department’s Executive Committee and a member of the board. Subsequently, in 2013 she was appointed global head of auditing for the TMT sector, forming part of the Global Executive Committee for TMT. She has also been director and member of the Audit Committee and the Appointment and Remuneration Committee of Gigas Hostings, BMGrowth listed company.

She was also appointed as a member of PwC’s Executive Committee and made head of Human Capital. In 2016 she was made head of the TMT sector in Spain and a member of the Executive Committee for Business and Sectors.

Ms Arce has broad experience in managing audits of listed and multinational groups, and in managing and directing projects in the areas of finance, financial risk and sustainability, internal control systems and internal auditing. She also has experience in advising on IPOs, strategy and transactions, talent management, recruitment strategies, retention, training and development.

From 2017 to 2022 she was global auditing partner of Telefónica.