| Román Escolano | |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Most Excellent |
| Office: | Minister of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness |
| Primeminister: | Mariano Rajoy |
| Term Start: | 7 March 2018 |
| Term End: | 1 June 2018 |
| Predecessor: | Luis de Guindos |
| Office1: | Vice President of the European Investment Bank |
| Term Start1: | 1 September 2014 |
| Term End1: | 7 March 2018 |
| Predecessor1: | Magdalena Álvarez |
| Successor1: | Emma Navarro |
| Office2: | President of the Official Credit Institute |
| Primeminister2: | Mariano Rajoy |
| Term Start2: | 5 January 2012 |
| Term End2: | 29 August 2014 |
| Predecessor2: | José María Ayala Vargas |
| Successor2: | Irene Garrido Valenzuela |
| Birth Place: | Zaragoza, Spain |
| Party: | People's Party |
| Alma Mater: | Autonomous University of Madrid |
Román Escolano Olivares (born in Zaragoza, 1965) is a Spanish economist. He was Minister of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness of Spain in 2018 for 3 months until the approval of the motion of no-confidence against Rajoy. He was also vice president of the European Investment Bank between 2014 and 2018.
Born in 1965 in Zaragoza, in northeastern Spain, Escolano worked at the EIB since 2014. At EIB, Escolano was part of the Management Committee, the body responsible for designing the bank's financial and loan policies and managing its daily activity. He was responsible for supervising the operations and activities of the EIB in Spain, Portugal, the Maghreb countries and Latin America. Internally, he monitored different control functions such as Risk Management and the application of best banking practices. He was also the chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Marguerite Fund, a pan-European venture capital fund.[1]
Prior to that, Escolano headed the Spanish Official Credit Institute from 2012 to 2014. He also served as chief economic adviser to the then-Prime-Minister Jose Maria Aznar from 2000 to 2004. He worked in the private sector as Director of Institutional Relations of the BBVA bank.[2]
In March 2018, he was appointed Minister of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness by Prime Minister Rajoy. He was forced out of office after the approval of the motion of no-confidence in the Rajoy's government.
Escolano is married and has three children.[11] [12]