Marina Echebarría, Competition Councillor: “It’s my turn to be a symbol of breaking down barriers”
The first trans person to sit on the CNMC council recalls that the body “is not decorative, but rather influences key issues”
Marina Echebarría Sáenz, a 63-year-old woman from San Sebastián, has become the first trans person to join the council of the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). She is a professor of commercial law with nearly four decades of experience at the Universidad de Valladolid. Echebarría Sáenz is also a long-time LGTBIQ+ activist and has received several awards, including the Pluma award from the Federación Estatal LGTBI+.
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