Trinidad Jiménez | |
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Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation | |
In office 21 October 2010 – 22 December 2011 |
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Prime Minister | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero |
Preceded by | Miguel Ángel Moratinos |
Succeeded by | José García-Margallo y Marfil |
Minister of Health and Social Policy and Equality | |
In office 7 April 2009 – 21 October 2010 |
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Prime Minister | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero |
Preceded by | Bernat Soria |
Succeeded by | Leire Pajín |
Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
In office 13 December 2011 – 12 January 2016 |
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Constituency | Malaga |
In office 1 April 2008 – 22 April 2008 |
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Constituency | Madrid |
Personal details | |
Born |
Trinidad Jiménez García-Herrera 4 June 1962 Málaga, Andalusia, Spain |
Nationality | Spanish |
Political party | PSOE |
Trinidad Jiménez García-Herrera (Spanish: [tɾi.niˈðað xiˈmenes] : born 4 June 1962) is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician and was Spain's Foreign Affairs Minister. She is widely considered to be a confidante of former Spanish prime ministers Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
Born in Málaga on 4 June 1962, the third of nine children, Jiménez has a law degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Jiménez is an international relations specialist by profession. In 1983, while still attending Law Faculty, together with other students, she set up the Socialist Students Association. She joined Juventudes Socialistas de España, Spain’s Socialist Youth and was a member of its International Relations Committee. Jiménez joined the PSOE a year later. Jiménez chaired the International Relations Committee of Spain’s Youth Council and served on its Permanent Committee (1984–1986).
She was the Spanish representative on a North American NATO Youth Exchange Program (1989) and headed the 'New Programs and Development' department of the Spanish delegation of the American Field Service. Jiménez also helped run the Office of the Secretary General of the National Commission for the Fifth Centennial of the Discovery of America.
Between 1990 and 1992, Jiménez lived in Equatorial Guinea, working as a Professor-Tutor in Political Law at the National Distance Education University (UNED) and at the Spanish College in Bata.
From 1996 to July 2000, Jiménez served as the Officer in Charge of Political Relations with America in the PSOE's International Relations Secretariat and, from 1997, as an advisor to ex Prime Minister Felipe González when he was chair of the Socialist International’s Global Progress Commission. She later served as her parliamentary group's spokesperson on foreign affairs.