The Board of Trustees of the Telefónica Foundation, chaired by José María Álvarez-Pallete, has approved the appointment of Luis Prendes as the new General Director of the Foundation, effective from January 1, 2024 and replacing Carmen Morenés, who leaves the position voluntarily and after a successful period of five years. The approval was passed at the Board's meeting yesterday.
Luis Prendes has a law degree from the University of Oviedo. Luis is a specialist in intellectual property, new technologies and digital businesses, and after working in different North American and Spanish law firms, he joined the Telefónica group in 2002. Since then he has held different positions of legal responsibility, including legal director of Terra Networks Spain, legal director of Telefónica Móviles for the Andean region (Peru, Ecuador, Colombia & Venezuela) and business legal director of Telefónica Internacional (for all of Latin America).
In 2011 he became general secretary of the Telefónica group in Peru. In 2014 he was appointed general secretary of Telefónica Digital and subsequently (in 2017) he assumed the position of global director of business legal affairs of Telefónica, S.A. Since 2021 and until now, he has been serving as Chief Legal Officer of Telefónica S.A. and as global director of digital transformation of the legal areas of the Telefónica group.
