About

With an illustrious career spanning private practice, public sector and in-house, José Luis del Valle Pérez has been the director and general secretary at the IBEX 35 listed Grupo ACS since 2000. In 1989 he was appointed member of the board at ACS Actividades de Construcción y Servicios and secretary of the board one year later. He started his career in 1975 as a lawyer of the Spanish state, and in 1978 he was appointed chief legal advisor of the political party UCD; from 1979 to 1982 he was member of the Spanish Parliament (Congreso de los Diputados) and from the end of 1981 to the end of 1982 was deputy minister of Territorial Administration. He now leads a total of 300 people in different jurisdictions, as he coordinates the work of the legal departments of all local branches of ACS. The changes he spearheaded significantly increased the legal department’s efficiency and its reporting systems.