Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Law from Complutense University of Madrid, 1983.
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Maria Castillo
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Career
Minister for Education, Culture and Sport in the Spanish Government, 2000 to 2004. Law graduate at Complutense University of Madrid, 1974. In 1980 she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship for a Master"s Degree in Political Science at Ohio State University, United States of America. In 1986 she became Assistant Professor in Constitutional Law at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, and Professor in Political Science and Administration in 1994.
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal "Nueva Revista de Política, Cultura y Arte", 1995-1996.
Director of the Spanish Sociological Research Centre, 1996 to 2000. Chair of the European Internet Foundation.
Chair of the "Energy and Environment" Permanent Working Group of the European Ideas Network (EIN).
Politics
Awarded the Spanish Sociological Research Centre Prize for the doctoral thesis "Political Party Funding in Western Democracies", 1984. She is author of numerous publications on political parties and electoral behaviour.
Membership
Member of the European Parliament, since 2004. Coordinator for the Group of the European People"s Party in the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE), and substitute member in the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). Member of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with India.
Member of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN), the European Energy Forum (EEF) and the Board of Knowledge4Innovation (K4I).
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Spanish Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis (FAES), and of various national and international Political Science Associations. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Prado Museum.
Personality
She is passionate about art, her official ministerial portrait, that hangs in the gallery of the Ministry of Education, is a self-portrait.
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Political Party
People"s Party