Former Spanish minister joins Madrid business school

Spain's former Minister of Public Administrations - Jordi Sevilla Segura - has joined Instituto de Empresa Business School (IE) in Madrid for the start of the 2009-2010 academic year. He will be teaching economic environment and country analysis as an associate professor.

Sevilla holds a degree in economic sciences from the University of Valencia and is a member of the Cuerpo Superior de Técnicos Comerciales y Economistas del Estado (Association for Trade and Economy Advisors to the Spanish State).

The former minister has held positions that include advisor on international economic relations to the Spanish government (1985-1991), cabinet leader of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture (1991-1993), cabinet leader of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (1993-1996) and advisor to the Socialist Parliamentary Group in Spanish congress (1998-2000).

More recently, from 2000 until August 2009, he served as a member of parliament as Secretary for Economic Policy for the Executive Federal Commission of the Spanish Socialist Party. In the 2000-2004 legislature he was shadow minister of economy for the Spanish Socialist Party in congress. And from 2004 to 2007 he served as the Spanish government's Minister of Public Administrations.

He will be a great addition to the faculty at this leading European business school. For more information on IE click here.

Content added 30th September 2009.

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