Luisa Santos
Deputy Director, BusinessEurope
Ms Santos is Deputy Director General at BusinessEurope in charge of International Relations and Chair of BusinessEurope’s EU-UK Task Force. She was a member of the TTIP Advisory Group and is now a member of the Expert Group on EU trade agreements of the European Commission. Her principal experience is in trade and the textiles sector, having acted first as the chief representative for the Portuguese textile industry in Brussels, later as Trade and Industry Manager for Euratex- European Apparel and Textile Confederation. She was also the manager responsible for international partnerships – including a joint venture in India – for a leading Portuguese textile company. Her academic background is in law and management.
All work
Event
18 March 2025
A trade policy framework for the EU-UK reset
Rebuilding economic ties through cooperation, new agreements, and regulatory alignment
Event
09 March 2020
Global competition and digital change: How should we update European competition policy?
The event addressed the need for modernising European competition policy due to structural changes in the economy caused by shifting global economic l
Event
19 February 2018
Is there life After TTIP? The future of transatlantic economic relations
The partnership between North America and Europe is becoming unsettled and uncertain. How can we deal with this new situation that threatens the prosp