Gustavo Suárez Pertierra

Spanish jurist and politician

ConstituencyAsturias

Born (1949-02-27) 27 February 1949 (age 77)

Gustavo Suárez Pertierra


Minister of Defence
In office 1995–1996
Minister of Education and Science
In office 1993–1995
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 1996–2000
Constituency	Asturias

Personal details
Born	(1949-02-27) 27 February 1949 (age 77) Cudillero, Spain
Party	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Gustavo Suárez Pertierra (born 1949) is a Spanish jurist and politician. He served as Minister of Education and as Minister of Defence during the governments of Felipe González.

Born on 27 February 1949 in Cudillero,^[1] he earned a PhD in Law at the University of Valladolid.^[2] He lectured in canon law at the University of Oviedo and the University of Valladolid, later holding the Chair of Canon Law at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).^[2] He briefly served as President of the University Socialist Grouping (ASU) in the 1980s.^[3]

He served as Undersecretary of Defence from 1984 to 1990 and as Secretary of State of Military Administration from 1990 to 1993.^[4] He was appointed Minister of Education and Science in 1993.^[2]^[5] In 1995, after a cabinet reshuffle, he changed portfolio and assumed the post of Minister of Defence on 3 July,^[6] in replacement of Julián García Vargas.

He ran as candidate to deputy 2nd in the PSOE list in Asturias for the 1996 general election^[7] and became a member of the 6th term of the Congress of Deputies (1996–2000).^[8]

He presided over the Elcano Royal Institute from 2005 to 2012.^[9]

In 2018, Suárez Pertierra was appointed President of the UNICEF's Spanish committee in replacement of Carmelo Angulo Barturen [es].^[4]

References

↑ "Suárez Pertierra, nombrado asturiano universal por las casas de Asturias de Alcobendas y Alcalá de Henares". www.lne.es. La Nueva España. 6 March 2010.
1 2 3 "Un catedrático de derecho canónico dirigirá Educación". ABC. 13 July 1993.
↑ Mateos, Abdón (2018-11-30). "La refundación de la Agrupación Socialista Universitaria (ASU) durante la transición, 1977-1986 = The Refoundation of the University Socialist Association during transition, 1977-1986". CIAN-Revista de Historia de las Universidades (in Spanish). 21 (2): 193–211. doi:10.20318/cian.2018.4474. ISSN 1988-8503.
1 2 "El exministro Gustavo Suárez Pertierra, nuevo presidente de UNICEF Comité Español". Europa Press. 12 February 2018.
↑ Urquijo y Goitia, José Ramón de (2008). Gobiernos y ministros españoles en la edad contemporánea (in Spanish). Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. ISBN 9788400087371.
↑ "Pertierra y Lerma prometieron sus cargos ante el Rey; Saavedra utilizó la fórmula del juramento". ABC. 4 July 1995.
↑ Juntas Electorales Provinciales: "Cantidaturas proclamadas para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado, convocadas por Real Decreto 1/1996, de 8 de enero" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (32): 3979. 6 February 1996. ISSN 0212-033X.
↑ "VI Legislatura (1996-2000). Suárez Pertierra, Gustavo". Congress of Deputies.
↑ "El exministro asturiano Gustavo Suárez Pertierra, nuevo presidente de UNICEF Comité Español". www.elcomercio.es. El Comercio. 12 February 2018.