Mercedes Cabrera Calvo-Sotelo, GCIH (born 3 December 1951) is a Spanish politician, political scientist, historian, and

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. 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.

Biography

Cabrera 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 Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

and of the social and political movements in the Complutense University. She is married to Carlos Arenillas, vice-president of the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV, Spanish National Stock Exchange Commission) and has two children. She has been a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) deputy for the constituency of Madrid since 2004 when she ran second on the party list after Prime Minister

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (; born 4 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was the Prime Minister of Spain being elected for two terms, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections ...

. 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 Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Position she held until April 2009 when she was substituted by Ángel Gabilondo.

Honours

PRT Order of Prince Henry - Grand Cross BAR

Grand-Cross of the

Order of Prince Henry The Order of Prince Henry ( pt, Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique) is a Portuguese order of knighthood created on 2 June 1960, to commemorate the quincentenary of the death of the Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator, one of the main initiators of ...

, Portugal (25 September 2006)

Published works

* ''The employer's association before the Second Republic. Organizations and strategy (1931–1936)''. Publishing Century XXI. 1983.. * ''The power of the industrialists. Policy and economy in contemporary Spain'' (1875–2000) Publishing Taurus. 2002. . * ''With light and stenographers: Parliament in the Restoration (1913–1923)''. Taurus Editorial. 1998. . * ''The industry, the press and the policy: Nicholas Maria de Urgoiti (1869–1951)''. Publishing Alliance. 1994. .

References

External links

Personal file in Congress

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