The Board of Trustees of the National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) has approved "by absolute majority" the appointment of Cristina Navarro Enterría as the new managing director of the organization, in an extraordinary session held this Friday. With this decision, she becomes the first woman to assume the responsibility of this management at the CNIO.
According to the Board of Trustees, "Cristina Navarro brings together both the optimal experience and technical training for a position of the highest personal and professional demand, since she has not only a solid track record as a manager, but also possesses the leadership capacity required by the administrative direction of the largest oncology research center in our country".
Navarro Enterría holds a degree in Law from the University of Barcelona and holds the title of Expert in Social Services Management from the Complutense University of Madrid. In addition, she is a Senior Technician in Occupational Risk Prevention, with the three specialties of Safety at Work, Industrial Hygiene, and Ergonomics and Applied Psychosociology.
Career civil servant, she has accumulated more than 25 years of experience in the three territorial levels of the Administration (local, regional, and general), where she has worked in different management areas of Institutional Public Sector entities: regulatory processing, economic-budgetary management, human resources, interdepartmental coordination, and administration of European funds.
In the General State Administration she has held positions of maximum responsibility, among them that of Undersecretary of the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration between 2023 and 2026. Currently she serves as an advisory member in the Ministry of Finance.
Navarro Enterría arrives at the managerial direction of the CNIO after the resignation of José Manuel Bernabé Sánchez last February, after being the subject of accusations of alleged harassment. Bernabé had assumed the position of manager on September 1, 2025, relieving Juan Arroyo, dismissed by the Board of Trustees along with the then scientific director, María Blasco, following complaints of mismanagement.