Education
He graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Sciences in San Sebastian. He completed his doctorate thesis at the Higher Institute of Industrial Engineering in Bilbao (1994).
He graduated from the Faculty of Chemical Sciences in San Sebastian. He completed his doctorate thesis at the Higher Institute of Industrial Engineering in Bilbao (1994).
Born in Zumárraga, Guipúzcoa, Spain in 1963. Doctorate in Chemical Sciences from the University of the Basque Country. Josu Jon Imaz San Miguel has a Doctorate in Chemical Sciences from the University of the Basque Country.
He specialised in Polymers.
He received training in Business Management in 1989-1990, as part of the Ikasbide General Management Plan of the Mondragón Cooperative Group. In December 1986 he was sent by the INASMET Technology Centre to the French Centre Technique des Industries Mécaniques centre, having received a grant from the Ministry of Industry and Energy as part of their overseas training programme for researchers.
Manager of the Composites and Polymers Unit of INASMET from 1987-1989. He joined the Mondragón Cooperative Group from 1989-1991 as an industrial developer.
Manager of the Marketing and External Relations Department of INASMET from 91-94.
After time off spent in politics, he resumed his academic career as a visiting researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2008 he returned to the business world as president of Petronor, a Repsol group company headquartered in Muskiz, near Bilbao. In 2010 he became director of Repsol"s New Energies Unit with the aim of identifying opportunities, developing projects and carrying out business initiatives in areas such as bioenergy and renewable energy for transport.
In November 2011, he was elected President of the Spanish Association of Petroleum Operators (AOP).
In June 1994 he was elected Euro-Deputy to the European Parliament, a post that he held until his appointment on 7 January 1999 as Regional Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism of the Regional Government of the Basque Country. As a regional minister of Industry, he was president of the Basque Energy Entity (EVE), president of the Society for Industrial Promotion and Reconversion (SPRI) and spokesman for the Basque Regional Government.
In January 2004 he was elected chairman of the executive committee of EAJ-Partido Nacionalista Vasco (Basque Nationalist Party). In autumn 2007, he announced his decision not to stand for re-election and ended his career in politics.
Member of the Repsol Executive Committee. In 2012 he became a member of Repsol"s Executive Committee, as Executive Director of the Industrial and New Energies Unit.
