Deputy Prime Minister Carlos Cuerpo leads economic policy design and implementation in continental Europe´s fourth-largest economy. Prior to his appointment as Economy Minister in 2023, Cuerpo held two senior positions within the ministry. As the Secretary General of the Spanish Treasury, he oversaw the country’s public debt management in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and represented Spain in international institutions and fora, including the G20 and the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that, he was Director General of Macroeconomic Analysis, leading the ministry’s economic forecasting and research unit. Cuerpo began his career as a civil servant in 2008 as a member of the Spanish Corps of State Economists. He also worked for the European Commission in Brussels and Spain’s Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIRef), the national fiscal watchdog.