The Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Centre for Sociological Research), or CIS, is a Spanish public

research institute A research institute, research centre, or research organization is an establishment founded for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research. Although the term often implies natural ...

. It was founded in 1963 as the Instituto de la Opinión Pública, and after the

1977 Spanish general election A General elections in Spain, general election was held in Spain on Wednesday, 15 June 1977, to elect the members of the Spanish . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as all 207 seats in the Senate of Spain, S ...

acquired its present name. The institute publishes the ''Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas'' and various series of books.

List of presidents

* Luis González Seara (July 1963 – October 1967) * (October 1967 – January 1971) * Ramón Cercós Bolaños (January 1971 – 1972) * Alejandro Muñóz-Alonso Ledo (1972 – July 1973) * Rafael Ansón Orliart (July 1973 – February 1974) * Francisco Murillo Ferrol (February 1974 – October 1974) * Pablo Sela Hoffmann (January 1975 – March 1976) * Luis López-Ballesteros y Cervino (April 1976 – October 1976) * Juan Díez Nicolás (October 1976 – April 1979) * Rafael López Pintor (April 1979 – January 1983) * Julián Santamaría Ossorio (January 1983 – March 1987) * Rosa Conde (March 1987 – July 1988) * Luis Rodríguez Zúñiga (September 1988 –4 May 1991) * Joaquín Arango Vila-Belda (July 1991 – May 1996) * Pilar del Castillo Vera (May 1996 — April 2000) * Ricardo Montoro (May 2000 – May 2004) * (May 2004 – May 2008) * (May 2008 – September 2010) * (September 2010 – January 2012) * Félix Requena Santos (January 2012 – December 2016) * Cristóbal Torres Albero (December 2016 – June 2018) * José Félix Tezanos (since June 2018)

References

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