Manuel Illueca Muñoz
Chairman
Manuel Illueca Muñoz Executive is Chairman & CEO of the Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO). He is also Chairman of Axis, private equity y venture capital management firm and Chairman of Fundación ICO.
Manuel IIlueca holds a degree in Economics and Business Studies from the University of Valencia and a PhD in Business Administration and Management from the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón.
Since September 2023, he has been CEO of Findango Finance. Previously he has been director of the Institut Valencià de Finances of the Generalitat Valenciana (2015-2023) and president of the Sociedad de Garantía Recíproca de la Comunidad Valenciana (2016-2023), the mutual guarantee association of Valencia.
Over the course of his career he has been a lecturer in Financial Economics and Accounting at the Universitat Jaume I of Castellón (specialisation: analysis of financial statements, banking economics and derivative financial products) and Research Fellow at the Valencian Institute of Economic Research.
He has published research articles in national and international journals.
Until his appointment, he held the position of Director General of Risks and Financial Control at ICO, where he participated in the design and implementation of the main loan lines of the Recovery Plan managed by the Instituto de Crédito Oficial, as well as in the preparation of the institution's multi-year budget for 2025-2028.