Nadia Calviño, Vice-President and Minister for Economy and Digitalization since June 2020, holds a degree in Economics (1991) from the Universidad Complutense deMadrid (Spain) and a degree in Law (2001) fromthe Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). In 1994, she joined the Spanish public administration as member of the corps of State Economist and Trade Experts (Técnicos Comerciales y Economistas del Estado). Since 2018, Vice-President Calviño wasMinister for Economy and Business and from2014 to 2018, she was the Director General in charge of the Budget within the EU Commission. Previously, she held other senior management positions in the European Commission: Deputy Director General with a special responsibility for Financial Services and Deputy Director General in the Directorate General for Competition with special responsibility for Mergers and Antitrust (including cartels). Before joining the European Commission in September 2006, she was a civil servant in Spain (Técnico Comercial y Economista del Estado) where she worked in theMinistry for Economy. She held different positions in the areas of foreign trade, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, economic policy and competition. Senior roles included Deputy Director General for Legal Affairs, Deputy Director General for Mergers and Director General for Competition. Minister Calviño lectured at the Faculty of Economics at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. She also published a large number of articles on matters within her purview and awarded the 2012 Women’s Leadership Awards by the Aliter Business School and the 2007 Public Sector Lawyer of the Year by the Iberian Lawyer magazine.

Asien hat die Koblenzerin fasziniert, seitdem sie in der Oberstufe an einer China AG teilnahm. Auf ein Studium der Ostasienwissenschaften mit Schwerpunkt Volkswirtschaft in Duisburg und Kyoto folgte ein Volontariat bei der Deutschen Presse-Agentur (dpa). Danach arbeitete Nicole Bastian als Redakteurin im dpa-Wirtschaftsressort in Hamburg und als Wirtschaftsreporterin in Berlin. 2002 wechselte sie zum Handelsblatt. Fünf Jahre lang schrieb sie als Tokio-Korrespondentin über die Wirtschaft und Politik in Japan, Süd- und Nordkorea. Pünktlich zum Ausbruch der Finanzkrise wechselte sie im Frühjahr 2007 als Bankenkorrespondentin nach Frankfurt. 2011 übernahm sie die Leitung des Finanzressorts. Seit 2014 verantwortet sie in Düsseldorf die Auslandsthemen für das Handelsblatt.