Sandra Ortega Mera (born 19 July 1968) is a Spanish billionaire heiress, businesswoman and socialite.
Mera is the daughter of Amancio Ortega Gaona, and his first wife Rosalia Mera founder of Inditex, best known as the parent company of global fashion empire Zara, she is the richest woman in Spain and one of the wealthiest people in the world.
Career and personal life
Mera inherited a 7% stake in Inditex, from her mother Rosalie, after she died in 2013, as her brother Marcos was born with cerebral palsy, and became Spain’s richest woman with a net worth of $7.3 billion.
Mera owns a share in Pharmaceutical company PharmaMar.
Ortega spends time working with the foundation her mother founded for those with mental and physical disabilities, Fundación Paideia Galiza.
Ortega earned a degree in psychology from the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is married with three children and resides in A Coruña, Spain.
Co-founder of Inditex
- Sandra Ortega Mera is the daughter of Amancio Ortega, cofounder of clothing giant Inditex, known for its Zara retail chain.
- She inherited her fortune from her mother, Rosalia Mera, who cofounded Inditex; she died suddenly in 2013.
- Net worth: $7.7 billion
- Now the second-richest person in Spain after her father, Sandra holds roughly a 4.5% stake in Inditex, but she is not involved in the company.
- She devotes her time to Fundaci?n Paideia, the nonprofit her mother started that supports vocational training for people with disabilities.
- She owns a 5% stake in publicly traded pharma company PharmaMar, which is testing the efficacy of one of its cancer drugs against Covid-19.
