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Pedro Solbes

Pedro Solbes
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Spain

Born August 31 1942, Pinoso (Alicante).

Education:

Doctorate in Political Sciences, University of Madrid.
Bachelor of Law, University of Madrid.
Diploma in European Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Professional career:

1968 

Civil servant, Ministry of Foreign Trade.

1973

Commercial counsellor, Spanish Mission to the European Community. 

1978 

Special adviser to Minister for Relations with the European Community.  

1979-1982 

Director-general of Commercial Policy, Ministry of Economics and Trade. 

1982-1985 

General secretary, Ministry of Economics and Finance. Member of task force for Spanish accession negotiations to the European Community. 

1989 

President of Internal Market Council during the first Spanish Presidency of the EC. 

1985 

Secretary of State for Relations with the EC.

1991-1993

Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries. 

1993-1996 

Minister of Economics and Finance.

1995

President of Ecofin Council during the Spanish Presidency of the EU. 

1996

Member of the Spanish Parliament. 

1996 

President, Joint Committee of the Spanish Parliament on the European Union.

September 1999     

Member of the European Commission, Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Since April 2004

Second Vice-President and Minister of Economy and Finance.