Correos names Javier Cuesta Nuin as president
Spain’s Correos has named a new president after Angel Agudo San Emeterio accepted a position as a professor at the University of Cantabria just seven months after his appointment. The new president is Javier Cuesta Nuin, 54, who was previously director general of biofuel production company Bio-Oils Energy, but worked at the Spanish postal service between 2003 and 2004 as its director of strategy and business development.
A civil engineer by training with a degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and an MBA from the INSEAD business school near Paris, Cuesta started his career at the Schlumberger oil engineering group working in Venuzuela, Brazil, France and Indonesia.
Javier Cuesta Nuin was director of strategy and business development at Correos from 2003 to 2004
He later spent time working for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
In a statement, Correos said its new president had also held various senior positions in companies within different sectors, including director general of telecoms company Jazztel and vice president of the Sabadell Computer Centre.
Agudo had been appointed Correo president back in August, taking over from Alberto Lafuente Félez who became president of the National Energy Commission.
Agudo was a two-term finance minister in the Calabrian regional government until Jun 2011, prior to his appointment at Correos, and Spanish local media suggested his return to a previous position as professor at the University of Calabria was related to the recent change of government in the region following elections.
