Ana Botín

Botín was born on 4 October 1960 in Santander, Spain. She is the daughter of Spanish banker Emilio Botín-Sanz de Sautuola y García de los Ríos, who was the executive chairman of Spain's Grupo Santander, and Paloma O'Shea, 1st Marchioness of O'Shea. She received her high school education at St Mary's School Ascot. She studied economics at Bryn Mawr College.

Botín worked at JP Morgan in the US from 1981 to 1988. In 1988, she returned to Spain and began working for the Santander Group. During that time, she was involved in the bank's 1997 acquisition of a 51 percent stake in Banco Osorno y La Union, the largest bank in Chile, for $495 million. In 2002, she became the executive chairman of the Spanish bank, Banesto. In November 2010, Botín succeeded António Horta Osório as chief executive of Santander UK.

In 2013, Botín was appointed a director of the Coca-Cola Company.

In September 2014, Botín was appointed chair of the Santander Group. She is the fourth generation of the Botín family to hold this role. Since taking charge she has brought in more international board members, embraced technology and strengthened the US and Latin America management teams.

In February 2025, Santander reported that Botín earned €13.77 million in 2024—up 13%—comprising €7.94 million in cash, €3.96 million in equity, €1.34 million in pension contributions, and €0.54 million in other benefits.

In 1983, Botín married fellow banker Guillermo Morenés y Mariátegui, son of the 9th Marquess of Borghetto, a wealthy landowner. They have three sons.

The family owns a large estate in Ciudad Real, south of Madrid. In 2010, Morenés y Mariátegui bought a six-bedroom home in Belgravia, London. They also own a house in the Swiss ski resort of Gstaad.

She is a two-time national junior golf champion who learnt the sport from former World No. 1 Seve Ballesteros, her late brother-in-law. In 2018 she became the fourth female member of the Augusta National Golf Club. She is the aunt of Olympic gold medalist Diego Botín, and the niece of Jaime Botín.