The new Minister of Economy, Commerce and Business began his career as a senior official in the public service, joining the Corps of State Economists in 2008. Later, in 2014, he worked as a national expert in the General Directorate of Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Comission.
Body (Badajoz, 1980) has a degree in Economics from the University of Extremadura, a PhD in Economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics. He entered the Superior Corps of Commercial Technicians and State Economists by competitive examination in 2008 and rose to the position of Secretary General of the Treasury and International Financing on August 24, 2021 in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.
Before joining the Treasury, he was General Director of Macroeconomic Analysis of the same Ministry, then directed by Calviño. In this position, he managed the Government’s official macroeconomic forecasts that accompany the General State Budgets, the Budget Plan and the Stability Program of Spain. Prior to his appointment as CEO, between 2014 and 2020, Corpus worked at the newly created Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) of Spain, first as Deputy Director of Public Debt and later as Director of the Economic Analysis Division.
Between 2008 and 2011 he was an economic analyst at the General Directorate of Macroeconomic Analysis and International Economy at the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Between 2011 and 2014, Corpus worked as a national expert in the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs at the European Commission.
From 2014 to 2020 he carried out his professional activity at the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF), first as deputy director of Public Debt and later as director of the Economic Analysis Division.
In his years in the Treasury he has managed to reduce the net financing of the Treasury, in line with the Government’s commitment to reduce the deficit and the debt/GDP ratio which, according to the latest estimates, will drop to 108.1% in 2023 and to 106.3% in 2024, a drop of 19 percentage points from the peak in 2021.
