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Rosa Lavín

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lavín and the second or maternal family name is Ibarra.
Rosa Lavín
Rosa Lavín, Iñigo Urkullu and Ramiro González
President of Confederation of Cooperative Companies of the Basque Country
Incumbent
Assumed office
2015
Personal details
Born
Rosa María Lavín Ibarra

1973
Sestao (Basque Country)
Spain
Children2
Parent(s)Rosa Mari Ibarra (mother)
Manuel Lavín (father)
ResidenceSestao (Spain)
Alma materMerciful Love School
University of the Basque Country (Lic., PG)
Superior Conservatory of Music
OccupationExecutive, financial executive, businesswoman

Rosa María Lavín Ibarra (born 1973) is a Spanish executive and businesswoman. Since 2015, she has been President of the Confederation of Cooperative Companies of the Basque Country, the Basque social economy business organization. She is the first woman to hold this position, and the first woman to lead a business organization in the Basque Country.[1][2]

She was formerly president of the Federation of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi (ERKIDE), also being the first woman to hold the position.[3][4][5]

She is a member of the board of directors of the Spanish Confederation of Social Economy Companies (CEPES), the Spanish business organization of social economy companies.[6][7]

She is also the chief financial officer (CFO) and vice president of the company SSI Group, among other corporate positions.[8][9][10][11]

She is a member of the Working Group of Women Leaders of the Social Economy, launched in 2023 by the second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy of the Government of Spain Yolanda Díaz.[12][13]

Early life and education

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Lavín was born in 1973 in Sestao, Biscay, Basque Country (Spain). She attended the Merciful Love School (Colegio Amor Misericordioso) in Sestao. The school is a Basque private Catholic school, belonging to the Congregation of the Sisters Servants of Merciful Love.[citation needed] She graduated from the University of the Basque Country with a bachelor's degree in economics. Later, she completed a postgraduate degree in social economy, cooperative companies and labor companies also at the University of the Basque Country.[14]

Lavín also studied music and piano at the Municipal Conservatory of Sestao and later at the Municipal Conservatory of Bilbao, where she studied piano, which made it compatible with her university degree in economics.[15]

Career

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In 1998, she started working at "SSI Group". She is currently the economic-financial director (CFO), director and vice president of the company Grupo SSI.[16][17][11] She is also a member of the board of directors of the Elkar-Lan company, of the HAZIBIDE Seed Capital Company and of the SEED CAPITAL Venture Capital Company.[11]

She is a member of different business organizations and federations of social economy companies. In 2019, she was elected president of the Federation of Cooperative Companies of the Basque Country (ERKIDE), being the first woman to hold the position.[18][19][20] In 2020, ERKIDE became part of the Confederation of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi.

Chairperson of the Confederation of Cooperative Companies of the Basque Country

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In 2015, Lavín was elected president of the Confederation of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi, the Basque social economy business community, becoming the first woman to hold this position since its creation in 1996.[21]

In this way, she presides over one of the two Basque employers' organizations (the other is the Basque Business Confederation ConfeBasque), which includes banking entities, credit companies, labor, associated work and others, among them the largest is the Mondragon Corporation.[22]

The Confederation of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi represents all the companies of social economy in the Basque Country (it brings together almost two thousand companies), as it does the Spanish Confederation of Social Economy Companies in Spain or the Social Economy Europe in Europe.[23][24][25][26][27][28]

Rosa Lavín (right) together with the President of the Mondragon Corporation Iñigo Ucín (left) and the Minister of Labor and Justice of the Basque Government, Mª Jesús San José (middle).

She has appeared several times in the Basque Parliament, especially with the elaboration of the new law of cooperatives of the year 2019.[29][30][31] She is a member of the Basque government agency Superior Council of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi and also of other councils and economic-business commissions of the Basque Government.[32][33][34][35][36][37][38]

In 2022, at the presentation of the Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation (PERTE) at the Palacio de la Moncloa (Madrid), together with Pedro Sánchez, Nadia Calviño and Yolanda Díaz, she defended the participation of cooperative companies in the elaboration of public policies.[39]

In addition, Lavín is member of the board of directors of the Spanish Confederation of Social Economy Companies (CEPES), the Spanish employers' organization.[6][7]

She is a member of the Working Group of Women Leaders of the Social Economy, launched in 2023 by the second vice president and Minister of Labor and Social Economy of the Government of Spain Yolanda Díaz,[12] a group of 26 women leaders in the social economy for the implementation of advances in gender equality in the social economy.[12][13]

In 2015, when she was appointed president of the Confederation of Cooperative Companies of Euskadi, she became the first woman to lead a business organization in the Basque Country and also one of the first women to lead an employers' association in Spain.[citation needed]

Personal life

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She lives in Sestao. She is married and has two children.[citation needed]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Domaika, Eva (5 January 2023). "Rosa Lavín (Konfekoop): "Un 70 por ciento de la población de Euskadi tiene relación con las cooperativas"". cadena SER (in European Spanish). Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Rosa Lavin: "El modelo cooperativo es un modelo de futuro"". Crónica Vasca (in Spanish). 17 July 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  3. ^ Aja, Xabier (21 June 2021). "Rosa Lavin: "El modelo cooperativo ha demostrado que resiste mejor las crisis"". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  4. ^ Donostia, Entrevista de Maialen Mariscal / (1 June 2020). ""Demandamos apoyo institucional para reconvertir en cooperativas las empresas en crisis"". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  5. ^ Alda, Julio Díaz de (15 December 2019). "Rosa Lavín: "Necesitábamos una ley que nos diera cintura para competir en el mundo"". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 March 2023.
  6. ^ a b "Presentación de la "Hoja de ruta por la igualdad efectiva entre hombres y mujeres en la Economía Social" • Donostia - San Sebastián - Capital de la Economía Social". sansebastiancapitaleconomiasocial.es (in European Spanish). 8 June 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  7. ^ a b "Mujeres líderes de la Economía Social – CEPES Aragón". economiasocialaragon.es. 9 June 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  8. ^ "7/10 Social Economy as an Industrial Ecosystem". Social Economy Europe. 9 November 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Rosa Lavin". World Cooperative Congress 2021. 22 November 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2022.
  10. ^ SSI, Grupo (31 May 2019). "Rosa Lavín, presidenta de ERKIDE - cooperativismo". Grupo SSI (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  11. ^ a b c SSI, Grupo (22 October 2017). "Rosa Lavín en Erkide, las cooperativas en Euskadi". Grupo SSI (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  12. ^ a b c "Yolanda Díaz pone en marcha un grupo de 26 mujeres líderes en economía social: "Hoy las mujeres son visibilizadas"". Europa Press. 2 June 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  13. ^ a b "El Grupo de mujeres líderes de la Economía Social celebró su tercera reunión| Actualidad Observatorio | Observatorio Español de la Economía Social". observatorioeconomiasocial.es. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  14. ^ Deia (21 June 2021). "Rosa Lavin: "El modelo cooperativo ha demostrado que resiste mejor las crisis"". deia.eus (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  15. ^ "Rosa Lavin: "El modelo cooperativo es un modelo de futuro"". Crónica Vasca (in Spanish). 17 July 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  16. ^ "Rosa Lavin: "El modelo cooperativo es un modelo de futuro"". Crónica Vasca (in Spanish). 17 July 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  17. ^ Martínez, Jon Mujika / José Mari (5 May 2022). "El Grupo SSI celebra el 10º aniversario de Home Care Lab". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  18. ^ Gipuzkoa, Noticias de (21 June 2021). "Rosa Lavín: "El modelo cooperativo ha demostrado que resiste mejor las crisis"". www.noticiasdegipuzkoa.eus (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  19. ^ "Un canto a la diversidad en Lehendakaritza". El Correo (in Spanish). 21 December 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  20. ^ "Las cooperativas reivindican su modelo "resistente" para contribuir a la recuperación". EXPANSION (in Spanish). 14 October 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  21. ^ "Rosa Lavín: "Necesitábamos una ley que nos diera cintura para competir en el mundo"". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). 15 December 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  22. ^ "Demandamos apoyo institucional" (in Spanish). June 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  23. ^ "Las cooperativas vascas tendrán hasta 2024 para adecuar sus estatutos". El Correo (in Spanish). 6 October 2021. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  24. ^ Lavín, Rosa. "Rosa Lavín". revistas.eleconomista.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  25. ^ Nuevatribuna (29 May 2022). "La Economía Social aumentará su peso en el PIB hasta un 11%". Nuevatribuna (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  26. ^ EFE, Agencia (27 May 2022). "El Gobierno destinará 800 millones al nuevo perte que impulsa los cuidados". COPE (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  27. ^ CEPES (1 June 2022). "En marcha el PERTE para la Economía Social que propiciará su crecimiento hasta alcanzar el 11% del PIB". La Opinión de Murcia (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  28. ^ "Díaz aboga por expandir la Economía Social en la que Euskadi es "referente internacional"". Europa Press. 24 February 2023. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
  29. ^ "Konfekoop-eko eta CEPESeko ordezkarien agerraldia Lan eta Justizia Batzordean". www.legebiltzarra.eus (in Basque). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  30. ^ Alda, Julio Díaz de (15 December 2019). "Rosa Lavín: "Necesitábamos una ley que nos diera cintura para competir en el mundo"". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  31. ^ "Rosa Lavín, Presidenta de Konfekoop, valora la nueva Ley de Cooperativas de Euskadi – OVES-GEEB" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  32. ^ CHORRO, LEIRE (5 July 2018). "El cooperativismo vasco supera los 51.000 empleos, por encima de antes de la crisis". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  33. ^ "Los partidos políticos vascos acompañan al movimiento cooperativo en una nueva jornada de Forokoop| Actualidad Observatorio | Observatorio Español de la Economía Social". observatorioeconomiasocial.es. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  34. ^ Fiestras, Joseba (21 December 2019). "Un canto a la diversidad en Lehendakaritza". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  35. ^ "Konfekoop cerró el año pasado con 1.259 cooperativas y generó 2.529 nuevos empleos". El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Europa Press. 21 May 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  36. ^ "Las cooperativas reivindican su modelo "resistente" para contribuir a la recuperación". EXPANSION (in Spanish). 14 October 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  37. ^ Nuevatribuna (29 May 2022). "La Economía Social aumentará su peso en el PIB hasta un 11%". Nuevatribuna (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  38. ^ "L'Executiu vol professionalitzar i donar un sou a les dones que fan cures informals". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 28 May 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
  39. ^ "Konfekoop pide participar en la definición de las políticas públicas". Diario de Noticias de Álava (in Spanish). Europa Press. 28 May 2022. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
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