Julián Romero is currently President of the Spanish Observatory for Sustainable Finance. His career has spanned various institutions and different investment banking activities. After working in the investment banking departments of Dresdner Bank and Banco Exterior de España, he joined BBVA's Trading department. In 2005, he became Head of Bond Syndication for Europe. In 2017, he created the Sustainable Bonds group at BBVA. Having witnessed the birth and evolution of green bond markets, he has been his institution's representative in the Green Bond Principles since 2014.
He holds a degree in Economics from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has a master's degree in Responsible Banking from the IEB and a course in Sustainable Development from Columbia University.