Pamplona
Pamplona (; eu, Iruña or ), historically also known as Pampeluna in English, is the capital city of the Chartered Community of Navarre, in Spain. It is also the third-largest city in the greater Basque cultural region.
Lying at near above ...
,
Navarra
Navarre (; es, Navarra ; eu, Nafarroa ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( es, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, links=no ; eu, Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea, links=no ), is a foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, ...
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was a
Spanish
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politician
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and
Member of the European Parliament
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European People's Party
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and sat on
the
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's
Committee on Budgetary Control
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and its
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.
He was a substitute for the
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Chile
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,
University of Navarre
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, latin_name = Universitas Studiorum Navarrensis
, established = 17 October 1952
, type = Private, Roman Catholic
, chancellor = Fernando Ocáriz Braña
, president = María Iraburu Eliz ...
* Master's degree in
economics
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and business administration, IESE Business School, Barcelona
* Seventeen years'
experience
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in the private financial and business sector
* Former Secretary of UPN, member of the Parliament of Navarre
* held the portfolio for economics and
finance
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in the Government of Navarre
Career
* 1977-1979 Compañía Navarra de Autobuses. Director General. Pamplona.
* 1979-1982 Confederación Española de Sociedades de Garantía Reciproca. Director General, Madrid.
* 1982-1991 Lawyer. Pamplona.
* 1991-1993 Regional Minister of Economics, Budget an taxes. Gobierno de Navarra, Pamplona.
* 1993-1994 and 1996-2009:
Member of the European Parliament
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* 2009-2011 : General Adviser, Core Team of European Parliament President. Brussels
* 2012-2014 : Lawyer and Public Affaires Consultor. London
* 2015-today: Lawyer and Public Affaires Consultor. Lisboa.