2023-12-29 17:54:36
The until now Secretary General of the Public Treasury and International Financing, Carlos Body, is the new Minister of Economy, replacing Nadia Calviño, after her departure from the Government to preside over the European Investment Bank (EIB), as announced this Friday by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in an institutional statement at the Palace of the Moncloa. Sánchez has defined Corpus as a “convinced Europeanist” and an “honest professional” with an “exemplary career as a public servant.” The new head of the economic portfolio will take office this Friday.
The President of the Government has also announced that María Jesús Montero will be first vice president of the Government, and that the structure of the Executive will be lightened by eliminating the fourth vice presidency. Montero will continue to be Minister of Finance, but the Secretary of State for Public function It leaves the orbit of the Ministry of Finance and will become within the Ministry of Digital Transformation directed by José Luis Escrivá, who reinforces its powers. Escrivá’s new department will be called the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service.
Body (1980) is a close collaborator of Nadia Calviño and has been responsible for State financing since 2021, a position he reached from the General Directorate of Macroeconomic Analysis to replace Carlos San Basilio. Graduated in Economics from the University of Extremadura, PhD in Economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid and Master in Economic Sciences from the London School of Economics, he entered the Higher Corps of Commercial Technicians and State Economists by competitive examination in 2008.
Regarding Calviño, the new Minister of Economy then pointed out that her appointment as the first female president of the EIB “is a source of pride and should be a reason for recognition of all the effort and international presence of Spain in the EU.”
Pedro Sánchez also alluded to the fact that the appointment of the Corps seeks to give continuity to the economic policy. “It will give continuity and depth to the exceptional work carried out by Nadia Calviño,” said the President of the Government.
The new minister’s experience includes his teaching at the University of Extremadura, the London School of Economics and the George Washington University, as well as at the Center for Economic and Commercial Studies. He has been an economic analyst in the General Directorate of Macroeconomic Analysis and International Economy and in the General Directorate of Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission.
Montero, first vice president
From her position as first vice president, Montero will coordinate the Government’s economic policy and will chair the councils of ministers when Pedro Sánchez is absent.
Montero, current deputy secretary general of the PSOE and one of the negotiators in the Government agreements between the socialists and Sumar, has held the position of Minister of Finance since 2018. She has combined this position with that of Government spokesperson (between January 2020 and July 2021) and the Public Service branch (July 2021 – present).
In this new legislature, Sánchez decided to keep Montero as Minister of Finance and Public Function and also promoted her to fourth vice president. She will now serve as first vice president.
She has a degree in Medicine and Surgery and a master’s degree in Hospital Management from the EADA Business School. She held the Treasury and Public Administration portfolio in the Regional Government of Andalusia since 2013, a department she arrived at after spending nine years at the head of the Ministry of Health. which he accessed in 2004 with the help of Manuel Chaves.
She accepted this position after serving since 2002 as vice-counselor of the same department. Previously, she was deputy medical director of the Virgen de Valme University Hospital in Seville between 1995 and 1998. In this year she joined the Virgen del Rocío health complex in the same city, first as deputy medical director and later as deputy managing director.
Apart from her career in the health field, María Jesús Montero was president of the Marginalization Commission of the Youth Council of Andalusia between 1986 and 1988, and later general secretary of the same until 1990. From 2008 and until her appointment as minister she was parliamentary for Seville in the autonomous Chamber.
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