José Ignacio Wert
| José Ignacio Wert Ortega | |
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José Ignacio Wert in 2012
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| Minister of Education, Culture and Sport | |
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In office 22 December 2011 – 25 June 2015 |
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| President | Mariano Rajoy |
| Preceded by |
Ángel Gabilondo (Education) Ángeles González-Sinde (Culture) José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Sport) |
| Succeeded by | Íñigo Méndez de Vigo |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
18 February 1950 Madrid, Madrid, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | Independent (Formerly Partido Popular) |
José Ignacio Wert Ortega (born 18 February 1950, in Madrid) is a Spanish politician. On 22 December 2011 he was appointed Minister of Education, Culture and Sports by the president of the Spanish Government, Mariano Rajoy. He resigned on June 25th, 2015, and was replaced by Íñigo Méndez de Vigo.
José Ignacio Wert attended the Colegio Santa María del Pilar, in Madrid, before obtaining a Law degree from the Complutense University of Madrid, and a Master's degree in Political Sociology from the Institute of Political Studies. In 1979 he entered Spanish Radio and Television Corporation by state exam for upper-level university graduates, initially as a technologist, and subsequently as deputy director of the Audience Research cabinet.
He taught Communication Theory in the Faculty of Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid.
He was a member of the Democratic Left (Spain) until 1977, when he left the party to join Union of Democratic Center, holding political positions in several public bodies. In 1978 he was appointed Head of the Studies Service, on which both the Studies of Content and the Audience Research cabinets depended. In 1979 he was appointed Assistant Director-General of the Technical Cabinet of Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS), the Spanish agency for sociological research, a body that reported to the Presidency of the Government. In 1980, the Senate appointed him member of the Advisory Council of the Spanish Radio and Television Corporation, on a proposal from the UCD.
Between 1974 and 1978 he taught Political Sociology in the Faculty of Economic Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
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