Sandra Ortega Mera
{{short description|Spanish billionaire heiress (born 1968)}}
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|name = Sandra Ortega
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|birth_name = Sandra Ortega Mera
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1968|07|19|df=y}}
|birth_place = A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
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|education = University of Santiago de Compostela
|parents = {{ubl|Amancio Ortega Gaona|Rosalía Mera}}
|spouse = Pablo Gómez
|children = 3
|known_for = Heiress of Inditex Group
Spain's richest woman
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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 second richest person in Spain, after her father. As of September 2024, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$12.0 billion.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/sandra-ortega-mera/|title=Forbes profile: Sandra Mera|work=Forbes.com|accessdate=20 September 2020}}
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.
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.{{cite news |title=Sandra Ortega, la misma política financiera que... su padre |url=http://www.elmundo.es/loc/2014/10/08/5434009f22601dc8798b458e.html |first=C. |last=Villar |date=8 October 2014 |access-date=24 November 2019 |newspaper=El Mundo |language=es |publisher=Unidad Editorial Información General S.L.U.}}
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.
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