JOSEP BORRELL FONTELLES is High Representative of the Union for Foreign Policy. Chair on European Economic Integration, at the Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales, Madrid University. Director of the Summer Course Quo Vadis Europa?, Universidad Internacional Menendez y Pelayo, Santander Member of the Board of the Notre Europe Jacques Delors Foundation.
Academic training and activities
Aeronautical Engineering by Universidad Politecnica of Madrid (1969)
Master on Energy Economics by the French Petroleum Institute (1972)
Master on Applied Mathematics by Stanford University (1975)
PhD in Economic by Universidad Complutense of Madrid (1976)
Professor of Economic Analysis at the Complutense University of Madrid. Chair holder since 1981,currently retired
Political activities in Spain
Spanish Secretary of State for Finance (1984-1991). Spanish Minister for Public Works, Transport, Environment, Housing and Telecommunications (1991-1996).
Member of the Spanish Parliament by the constituency of Barcelona 1986-2003
European activities
President of the European Affairs Committee of the Spanish Parliament (1999 – 2004).
Member of the European Convention (2002 – 2003).
President of the European Parliament (July 2004-January 2007).
President of the Development Committee of the European Parliament (February2007-June 2009).
President of the Euro Mediterranean (Euromed) Parliamentary Assembly (2006).
Founder and first co–President of the EuroLatinAmerican (Eurolat) Parliamentary Assembly (2006).
President of the Florence European University Institute (EUI) (January 2010-June 2012).