Urbano Troncoso

SANTANDER Bank
Vice President - Structured Finance (Hydrogen specialist)


Urbano is part of the Structured Finance team at Santander Bank and he leads the financing of Power-to-X projects globally. He is a chemical engineer, with more than 10 years of experience in the energy market.

He started his career in Cepsa, an integrated O&G company, in which he held several technical and commercial position in Europe, Asia and Africa. After 8 years, he joined Boston Consulting Group and spent 3 years supporting energy players and governments in the definition and implementation of their energy transition strategies, with a strong focus on hydrogen.

In 2022 he joined Santander, in order to support the bank’s expansion into the PtX market. Currently, he is helping the sponsors of the first PtX projects around the world to overcome the challenges they are facing their developments and to define and implement viable financing strategies.