Ana Palacio is a Senior Strategic Counsel at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, a founding member of DGA Group, and is based in Madrid. She draws on her experience as Foreign Minister of Spain and a member of the European Parliament to advise clients on business in Brussels and throughout the European Union. 

Ms. Palacio served as a member of the Spanish Parliament, where she chaired the Joint Committee of the two Houses for European Affairs, as well as the European Parliament, where she chaired the Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee, the Justice and Home Affairs Committee and the Conference of the Committee Chairs.

As the Head of the Spanish Delegation to the European Union’s Intergovernmental Conference and a member of the Presidium of the Convention, Ms. Palacio drafted and led legal discussions on the European Treaties reform.

Ms. Palacio served as Senior Vice President for International Affairs of AREVA, the international nuclear and renewable energy company; Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group; and Secretary General of the International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Ms. Palacio is currently an Arbiter at the Arbitration of Madrid’s Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Panel of Arbitrators of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). She is also a member of the Board of Directors of PharmaMar, a biopharmaceutical company; the International Advisory Board of INVESTCORP; and Anadarko, an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company. She is also a Founding Partner of Palacio y Asociados, a Madrid-based consulting and law firm.

Ms. Palacio serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of the European Union, the Board of the Atlantic Council of the U.S. and the Supervisory Board of Hague Institute for Internationalization of Law.