Pilar del Castillo Vera

María Pilar del Castillo Vera (born July 31, 1952 in Nador , Morocco ) is a Spanish politician of the conservative PP party and a member of the European Parliament .

Pilar del Castillo Vera (2008)

Life

Del Castillo studied law at the Complutense University in Madrid , where she graduated in 1974. She then was a Fulbright Fellow at Ohio State University from 1981 to 1982 , where she completed a Masters in Political Science . In 1983 she obtained her doctorate in law in Madrid.

From 1986 she was Professor of Constitutional Law at the Spanish State Distance University , and from 1994 she took a chair in Political Science. From 1995 to 1996 del Castillo was editor of the magazine Nueva Revista de Política, Cultura y Arte . From 1996 to 2000 she headed the Spanish public opinion research institute Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas .

In 2000 she was appointed Spanish Minister for Education, Culture and Sport in the second cabinet under José María Aznar (PP). In the parliamentary elections in March 2004 , in which the PP was defeated overall, it was elected to the Spanish Chamber of Deputies for the province of Granada . But that it abandoned a few months later to its mandate after it in the European elections in June 2004 in the European Parliament was elected, to which it belongs since then. She belongs to the Group of the European People's Party and is a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy .

Del Castillo has published several books, including on voter behavior and the financing of political parties. She is married and has two kids.

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personal data
SURNAME	Castillo Vera, Pilar del
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Castillo Vera, María Pilar del (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish politician (PP), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Nador , Morocco