MADRID, July 27 (Reuters) - Spain's BBVA on Thursday announced the appointment of Luisa Gomez Bravo, the current global head of Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB), as the bank's new chief financial officer, replacing Rafael Salinas Martinez.

The current head of sustainability, Javier Rodríguez Soler, will take on the additional role of head of CIB.

The areas of sustainability and CIB will maintain separate structures, to guarantee that the sustainability strategy remains in the Corporate and Investment Banking and also in all countries and businesses, BBVA said in a statement.

Salinas will continue to be involved with the Group as a board member of the bank's Turkish unit Garanti, the lender said.

Gomez Bravo started her professional career at Salomon Brothers and Lehman Brothers, before joining BBVA more than two decades ago.

Rodríguez Soler joined BBVA in 2008 as a managing director for the energy sector at CIB. In 2010, he moved to the area of strategy & M&A, becoming global head in 2015.

In 2018 he was appointed country manager of the BBVA U.S. unit, which was later sold to PNC.

(Reporting by Jesús Aguado; editing by Emma Pinedo and David Evans)