Jordi Sevilla Segura is a Spanish politician, Economist and former Minister for Public Administration (2004–2007) who belongs to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...

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Married with three children, he holds a BA in Economics from the University of Valencia and belongs to the State Body of Senior Trade Advisors and Economists of the State.

Political career

Between 1985 and 1991 he served as an advisor on International Economic Relations to the cabinet of the Prime Minister of Spain

Prime Minister of Spain

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. From 1991 to 1993 he was head of the Cabinet of the then Minister of Agriculture, Pedro Solbes

Pedro Solbes

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, whom he accompanied from 1993 to 1996 as Director of the Office of the Minister of Economy and Finance. Between 1998 and 2000 he was an adviser to the Parliamentary Socialist Group in Congress.

He was elected to the Spanish Congress in 2000 representing Castellon Province

Castellón (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Castellón is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It was first contested in modern times in the 1977 General Election. It is one of three districts which correspond to the provinces of the...

 and was re-elected in 2004 and 2008. From July 2000 he served as Secretary of Economic Policy and served on the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party's Federal Executive Committee (FEC).

On 18 April 2004, with the PSOE victory in the General Election, he was appointed Minister of Public Administration, serving until 6 July 2007 when he was replaced by the then Health Minister Elena Salgado

Elena Salgado

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In September 2008, he resigned to his seat in the Congress of Deputies to join PricewaterhouseCoopers

PricewaterhouseCoopers

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He has written several articles and three books:

• Review and prospects of North-South(1993)
• The Spanish economy to the single currency(1997)
• Againsocialism(2002)

External links

• Biography at Spanish Congress site

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