Leire Muguerza Garate

President of the Congress and of the Standing Committee of the Mondragón Corporation.
MONDRAGÓN CORPORATION.
Leire Muguerza Garate is the President of the Congress and the Standing Committee of Mondragon Corporación. In her professional career she has worked in various Mondragon Corporation Cooperatives. She began her professional career in 1998 in a company in the Mondragon industrial sector, EIKA S.Coop. In this company she held various responsibilities and was Director of Industries and Systems of the Eika Group. She was also President of the Governing Council of the same cooperative. In 2007 she continued to manage the Lea-Artibai Ikastetxea teaching cooperative within the Mondragon knowledge area. She currently works there and since 2012 she has combined her duties with the chairmanship of the Governing Council of Eroski S. Coop. Since January 2022 she has been president of the Congress and Standing Committee of the Mondragón Corporation. In May of the same year she was appointed 4th vice-president of CEPES and since November 2022 she has been a member of the CES. Since she joined the Eika cooperative more than 20 years ago, Muguerza has been directly involved in the creation and first steps of the Basque Language Commission as its Coordinator. She also took part in the creation of the Basque Commission and in the Technical Committee of the Mondragon Corporation.