Manuel_Escudero

Manuel Escudero

Manuel Escudero

Spanish politician

Manuel Escudero Zamora (born 1946) is a Spanish economist and politician.

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Biography

Escudero was born on 29 March 1946 in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa.[1][2] He graduated in business sciences at the Universidad de Deusto and obtained a PhD at the London School of Economics.[3] Between 1987 and 1991, he worked as co-ordinator of the "Programa 2000" of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).[4] He was professor[ambiguous] of macroeconomics at the IE Business School in Madrid between 1991 and 2005 as well as the director of the Global Compact Research Center at the Levin Institute.[5] Linked within the PSOE to Josep Borrell,[6] in 2003 he became a member of the Congress of Deputies representing Madrid, covering the vacant seat left by José Quintana Viar.[2] Escudero, who later took a step back from the political activity,[6] returned to the PSOE and was appointed secretary responsible for the area of economic policy and employment of the PSOE.

Following the accession of Pedro Sánchez to the post of prime minister in June 2018, Escudero was appointed chief ambassador of the Spanish delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),[7] replacing José Ignacio Wert.[8]

References

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    Andrade, Mónica; Jiménez, Vanesa; Mora, Miguel (21 June 2017). "La estrategia de aniquilar al vecino es pobre y equivocada" [The strategy of annihilating your neighbour is poor and wrong]. CTXT (in Spanish).
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    "Escudero Zamora, Manuel María" (in Spanish). Congreso de los Diputados. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020.
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    Mayo, M. G.; Amigot, B. (1 June 2018). "¿Quién podría llevar la cartera de Economía en el Gobierno de Sánchez?" [Who could carry the Economy portfolio in the Sánchez Government?]. Expansión (in Spanish).
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    Corbillón, Antonio (7 June 2017). "El economista de Pedro Sánchez" [Pedro Sánchez's economist]. Las Provincias (in Spanish).
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    García-Maroto, David (2 June 2018). "Manu Escudero, el 'cerebro' económico del nuevo PSOE: europeísta, social y conciliador" [Manu Escudero, the economic 'brain' of the new PSOE: pro-European, social and conciliatory]. El Independiente (in Spanish).
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    Carreño, Belén (20 February 2017). "El nuevo gurú económico de Pedro Sánchez está en las antípodas de Jordi Sevilla" [Pedro Sánchez's new economic guru is the opposite of Jordi Sevilla]. elDiario.es (in Spanish).
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    "Real Decreto 710/2018, de 29 de junio, por el que se nombra Embajador Jefe de la Delegación Permanente de España ante la Organización de Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE) a don Manuel María Escudero Zamora" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (158). El Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación: 65715. 30 June 2018. ISSN 0212-033X.
  8. [8]
    "Wert deja de ser embajador ante la OCDE" [Wert stops being ambassador to the OECD]. Diario de León (in Spanish). 30 June 2016.
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