Ana Botin, the head of one of England’s top banks, has been elected to the board of directors of Atlanta-based Coca-Cola.

The 52-year-old Botin is chief executive officer of Santander UK, the third largest bank in Great Britain, and has had a long corporate career, including leading corporate and investment strategies at JP Morgan in New York and heading Santander’s International Corporate Banking business in Latin America.

She is the fourth woman director on Coca-Cola’s board and the second international member.

She also is founder of both Empresa y Crecimiento Foundation, which finances small- and medium-sized companies in Latin America, and Conocimiento y Desarrollo Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that promotes the contribution of universities to economic and social development, Coca-Cola said.

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