Colonial Director since 2019.
Dates of appointment and re-election as director of Inmobiliaria Colonial, SOCIMI S.A.: January 24, 2019, June 14, 2019 and June 15, 2023.
Holds a degree in Political Sciences from the Sciences Po University (Paris) and a Master’s Degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from the Paris-Sorbonne University. By civil service examination, she became a teacher of Spanish studies in France. She has been teaching and researching for 25 years (1984-2009) in a number of French academic institutions: University of Toulouse, Sciences Po and the ESSEC Business School. Author of several books on history and contemporary Spanish politics.
Ms Alonso-Castrillo worked for the French Embassy in Singapore as a science and culture advisor, before being appointed regional director of INSEAD. She supervised the development of two campuses in Singapore: the French Lycée and INSEAD (1996-1999).
Upon her return to Europe in 2000, she worked for 15 years with ESSEC, managing international development and fundraising for the business school, which also opened a campus in Singapore.
In 2007 she founded the consulting firm Sociedad de Estudios Hispano Franceses, S.L. in Madrid, which she led until 2019 and of which she is the sole shareholder and director. Since 2013, Ms Alonso-Castrillo has run the family farm in the Loire Valley of France.
She has served on the Board of the College de Bernardins (Paris) and on the Executive Committee of the Fondation pour les Sciences Sociales (Paris). She was director of SFL from 2017 to January 2019 and from Koiki Home S.L. from 2017 to February 2023.