Manuel Ayerdi Olaizola (born 13 January 1967) is a Basque economist, politician, Minister of Economic Development and Business of

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and a member of the Parliament of Navarre. He was previously

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Early life

Aierdi was born on 13 January 1967 in

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(Donostia),

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. In 1989, he received a degree in economics and business administration from the San Sebastián campus of the University of Deusto. He has a post-graduate degree (1996) in financial management in

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Career

Aierdi joined the marketing department of

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company Ibermática in 1989. He was economic and financial director of Alcer, a construction company, from 1991 to 2001. He was also director of quality systems, prevention and environment at Alcer. Between 2001 and 2012, he was director of economic-financial and corporate services at Arian. He was Arian's legal representative in China between 2004 and 2011. In the 1990s, Aierdi taught human resources management models at the University of Deusto's Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences. Aierdi has been affiliated with the

Basque Nationalist Party The Basque Nationalist Party (, EAJ ; es, Partido Nacionalista Vasco, PNV; french: Parti Nationaliste Basque, PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially Basque National Party in English,) was rejected by party members in November 2011. Nonetheless, the party did ...

(EAJ) since 2003 and was an executive member of its Navarrese branch, the Napar Buru Batzarra (NBB), from 2008 to 2012. He was president of NBB from 2012 to 2015. Aierdi contested the 2011 regional election in Navarre as an Nafarroa Bai

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candidate and was elected to the Parliament of Navarre. He was re-elected at the 2015 regional election as a

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candidate. In July 2015, he was appointed

and Minister of Economic Development by

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. He resigned from parliament on 27 July 2015. In his ministerial role, Aierdi has been president of various state-owned companies including Sodena, Cener and Naitec. He came under criticism after Sodena loaned €3 million to Davalor Salud, a company that was in financial difficulties and subsequently went into

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. Aierdi was re-elected at the 2019 regional election. In August 2019, he was appointed Minister of Economic Development and Business by President María Chivite.

Electoral history

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