Mercedes Cabrera
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| Mercedes Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo | |
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Minister of Education and Science
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| Assumed office April 7, 2006 |
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| President | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero |
| Preceded by | Maria Jesus San Segundo |
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| Born | December 12, 1951 Madrid, Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spain |
| Political party | PSOE |
Mercedes Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo (born in Madrid on December 3rd 1951) is a Spanish politician, political scientist, historian, and minister. She is also niece of Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo Bustelo, Former Prime Minister and of Former Foreign Minister Fernando Morán Lopez and grandniece of the physicist Blas Cabrera Felipe.
[edit] Biography
She holds a PhD. in Political Sciences and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid and from 1996 onwards she was Professor of History of Political Theory and of the Social and Political Movements in the Complutense University.
She is married to Carlos Arenilla, vice-president of the CNMV (Spanish National Stock Exchange Commission) and has two children. She has been a PSOE deputy for the constituency of Madrid since 2004 when she ran second on the party list after Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. She was chosen as Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Education and Science in the Congress of the Deputies. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Pablo Iglesias Foundation and President of the Association of Friends of the "Residencia de Estudiantes". Also she has been a teacher at the "Estudio" School of Madrid. On 7 April 2006 she was named Spanish Minister of Education and Science by the Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.
[edit] Published works
- The employer's association before the Second Republic. Organizations and strategy (1931-1936). Publishing Century XXI. 1983.ISBN 84-323-0469-7.
- The power of the industrialists. Policy and economy in contemporary Spain (1875-2000) Publishing Taurus. 2002. ISBN 84-306-0439-1.
- With light and stenographers: Parliament in the Restoration (1913-1923). Taurus Editorial. 1998. ISBN 84-306-0293-3.
- The industry, the press and the policy: Nicholas Maria de Urgoiti (1869-1951) Publishing Alliance. 1994. ISBN 84-206-9406-1.
[edit] External links
Ministry of Education, Science and Sport
Personal file in Congress
Biography by el Mundo
