Eva Blasco, elected new president of the International Federation of Businesswomen

2023-12-18 13:34:26

The Valencian Eva Blasco García has been elected new president of the International Federation of Businesswomen BPW Spain with a board made up of a group of “committed and brave” women, with whom she will seek to develop strategic alliances with other women’s associations to accelerate the change towards a truly egalitarian society, as he indicated in his speech.

Blasco García has a long history in the tourism sector, holds the vice presidency of International Relations of the Spanish Confederation of Travel Agencies CEAV and is a member of the Board of the World Alliance of Travel Agencies WTAAA. She was vice president of the European Association of Travel Agencies ECTAA for 8 years, having been the first Spanish person, and the only one to date, to be elected. She is currently president of the CEV Valencia Business Confederation, as well as a member of the CEOE board of directors.

After 7 years at the head of Evap/BPW Valencia, marked by the exponential growth of the number of associates, and especially by the consolidation and strengthening of Evap in the business field, as a reference association, Blasco García has been elected in the Electoral Assembly held in Lleida, in which he thanked the outgoing president, Silvia Vigatà, for her dedication and effort throughout her 5 years at the head of the organization, in a complex context marked by the pandemic.

Blasco García is accompanied on the new board by: Isabel Carrasco García from REM/BPW Marbella-Málaga-Campo de Gibraltar as 1st Vice President, Mª Dolores Sánchez Tuduri from ASODAME/BPW Barcelona as 2nd Vice President, Amparo Martínez Miró from Evap/BPW Valencia as Secretary General and Avelina Bellostas Ara of AMEPHU/BPW Aragón as Treasurer. And as members: Coral Ariño Jordán (Evap/BPW Valencia), Neus Malagelada Robledillo (AGE/BPW Girona), Paz Martín Lozano (BPW Madrid), Sonia Mateo Sementini (ADEE/BPW Tarragona), Mª Isabel Muñoz González (REM/BPW Marbella- Málaga-Campo de Gibraltar), Eulàlia Pagès Valls (Ap!Lleida/BPW Lleida), Susana Pérez Peris (NDCS/BPW Castellón), Sonia Suárez Gavira (REM/BPW Marbella-Málaga-Campo de Gibraltar), Antonia Varela Pérez (BPW Canarias) and Sony Vashdev Lalwani (BPW Ceuta-Melilla).

“The elected candidate combines the necessary board experience, which allows for continuity of the strategic lines already initiated, with new incorporations, which will guarantee a renewed vision and the assumption of new challenges,” Blasco described.

«The new board is made up of a group of committed and brave women, from different territories and sectors, who are united by a common objective: to work for and for BPW Spain, always at the service of the associations that make up the Federation, supporting and By making them grow, BPW Spain will strengthen itself and reinforce its positioning,” he added.

Lines of work

Blasco García has indicated that women’s organizations with shared values ​​must work together “to promote and accelerate the change towards an authentic egalitarian society” so among the lines of work for the period 2023-2026, he has highlighted the need to promote and reinforce the positioning of BPW Spain, to consolidate it as a leading association for Spanish businesswomen, managers and professionals, developing strategic alliances with sectoral women’s organizations with shared values.

Other strategic axes will be territorial expansion, as well as articulating a horizontal organizational structure, through the creation of work groups, which enable active participation of member associations in the definition, design and development of the Federation’s activities.

«After my seven years at the head of Evap/BPW Valencia, I eagerly take on the challenge of leading the leading association of Spanish businesswomen and professionals, being fully aware of the greatness of the challenge I take on, but with full confidence in success, Well, as the motto of the candidacy says: Together to infinity and much more!

About the Federation

The Spanish Federation of Businesswomen and Professionals/BPW Spain was born in 2007 due to the need to unite the different Spanish associations of businesswomen, professionals and managers that operated in various territories. Currently 15 territorial associations from different areas belong to BPW Spain: REM/BPW Marbella, Málaga and Campo de Gibraltar (Cádiz), BPW Aragón, AMEPHU/BPW Huesca, BPW Teruel, ASEM/BPW Asturias, BPW Canarias, ADMEC/BPW Cantabria, ADEE/BPW Tarragona, AP! Lleida/BPW Lleida, ASODAME/BPW Barcelona, ​​AGE/BPW Girona, BPW Ceuta and Melilla, BPW Madrid, NDCS/BPW Castellón and Evap/BPW Valencia.

BPW Spain belongs to the International Federation of businesswomen and professionals Business Professional Women (IFBPW), the oldest and largest women’s organization in the world, founded in Geneva in 1930 by Lena Madesin Phillips, with a presence in more than 110 countries and in the 5 continents.

IFBPW has held consultative status in the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) since 1947, and in the Council of Europe since 1977.

BPW Spain obtained its own ECOSOC special consultative status before the United Nations on August 2, 2019, representing Spanish businesswomen and managers in UNECE, CSW, NGO and CEDAW.