Isabel Celaá

The Most Excellent
Isabel Celaá
Minister of Education and Vocational Training of Spain
Assumed office
7 June 2018
Monarch Felipe VI
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by Íñigo Méndez de Vigo
Spokesperson of the Spanish Government
Assumed office
7 June 2018
Preceded by Íñigo Méndez de Vigo
Personal details
Born (1949-05-23) 23 May 1949
Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain
Political party Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left
Alma mater University of Deusto
University of Valladolid

María Isabel Celaá Diéguez (born 1949) is a Spanish politician and academic who currently serves as Minister of Education and Vocational Training in the Spanish Government.

Biography

Politics in Euskadi

She started in politics in 1987 as head of the cabinet of the Regional minister of Education, Universities and Research José Ramón Recalde. After the brief interregnum of the coalition government PNV-EA-EE of 1991, she was vice-minister of Education, Universities and Research with Fernando Buesa as Basque counselor until the end of the legislature (1995).[1] In the following legislature she abandoned the educational responsibilities, being director of the cabinet of the Counselor of Justice, Economy, Labor and Social Security, Ramón Jáuregui. Between 1998 and 2009 and 2012 and 2016, she has been a member of the Basque Parliament for Province of Vizcaya[2]. As a parliamentarian, she was responsible for the educational issues of her group. Between 2008 and 2009 she was the first vice president of the Basque Parliament. From 2009 to 2012 she held the position of Counselor of Education, Universities and Research in the government of Patxi López, [3][2] She is particularly interested in the improvement of the Basque educational system and technology, and advocates scientific research.[4][5]

She was head of list of the PSE-EE to the Senate by the circumscription of Vizcaya in the general elections of 2015[6] and 2016[7] but she was not elected.

She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left (PSOE) party.

National Minister of Education and Vocational Training

On 7 June 2018, Pedro Sánchez after being sworn new Spanish Prime Minister, following the motion of censure that the PSOE presented against the previous government of Mariano Rajoy (PP) and that was approved by the Congress of Deputies on 1 June 2018, appointed her as Minister in new Spanish government.[8] Felipe VI sanctioned by royal decree of June her appointment as holder of the portfolio of Minister of Education and Vocational Training and Spokesperson of the Government[9][10] On 7 June she took office as Minister and Spokeswoman before the King at Palace of Zarzuela.[11][12]

References

  1. ↑ Isabel Celaá será la ministra de Educación del Gobierno de Pedro Sánchez (in Spanish)
  2. 1 2 "Equipos de gobierno IX Legislatura (mayo 2009 - diciembre 2012)" (in Spanish). Ejgv.euskadi.eus. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  3. ↑ "Isabel Celaá / Consejera de Educación, Universidades e investigación del Gobierno Vasco" (in Spanish). Eusko News. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Isabel Celaá" (in Spanish). Irekia.euskadi.eus. Retrieved 29 September 2015.
  5. ↑ OECD (16 November 2012). Higher Education in Regional and City Development Post-Secondary Vocational Education and Training Pathways and Partnerships: Pathways and Partnerships. OECD Publishing. pp. 180–. ISBN 978-92-64-09755-1.
  6. ↑ Candidaturas proclamadas (in Spanish)
  7. ↑ Elecciones Senado 2016. Candidaturas proclamadas Bizkaia (in Spanish)
  8. ↑ Isabel Celaá, nueva ministra de Educación del Gobierno de Pedro Sánchez (in Spanish)
  9. ↑ Celáa será la Portavoz del Gobierno además de ministra de Educación y Formación Profesional (in Spanish)
  10. ↑ Real Decreto 357/2018, de 6 de junio, por el que se nombran Ministros del Gobierno (in Spanish)
  11. ↑ Los 17 del "Consejo de Ministras y Ministros" de Sánchez prometen ante el Rey (in Spanish)
  12. ↑ "La exconsejera vasca Isabel Celaá compaginará el Ministerio de Educación con la portavocía del Gobierno". 6 June 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
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