Biography: José María GIL-ROBLES GIL-DELGADO

Academic Background

1952 -1957

Degree in Law

Professional Activity

1958	Clark of the Spanish Cortes (Legislative Assembly). Editor of the Bulletin of Foreign Legislation
1959 - 1964	Professor of Political Law in Universidad Complutense de Madrid
1968	Member of the editorial board of political magazine "Notebooks for Dialogue" (Cuadernos para el Diálogo)
1959 - 1997 and since 1999	Practices the legal profession
Since 1974	Publication of different legal works related with restoration of democracy and parliamentary and public law
2004	Chair "Jean Monnet" in "Universidad Complutense de Madrid" (Faculty of Political Science)
2006	Director of the "Jean Monet "centre of excellence "Truyol Serra" in "Universidad Complutense de Madrid"

European Parliament

1989 - 2004	MEP
1990	Member of the Bureau of the EPP
1990 - 1992	Vice-president of the EPP Group
1993 - 1994	President of the Commission of Institutional Affairs in the EP
1994 - 1997	MEP, Vice-President of the EP
January 1997 July 1999	President of the EP
Since July 1999	Member of the commission of Legal Affairs, Internal Market and Constitutional Affairs, president of the group for the protection and conservation of animals, member of the groups ATD Fourth World, Handicapped and European Constitution
January 2002 July 2004	President of the mixed parliamentary commission UE- Bulgaria
May 2006	President of the European Parliament Former Members Association

Political Activity

1957	Member of the Spanish Association of European Cooperation, closely linked with the European Movement
1962	Member of the Social Christian Democrats
1972	Member of the Direction Council of the Democrat Team of the Spanish state
1977	Secretary General on the first congress of the party and member of the chair of the European Union Christian Democrats (EUCD)
1984	President of the Centre of European Studies
1985 - 2003	Vice-president of the foundation Humanism and Democracy, in cooperation in Spain with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
From 1990 to 2004	Member of the table of the EPP and of the National Direction of Partido Popular
1996 - 2005 July 2004	President of the Federal Council of European Movement in Spain
1999 - 2005	President of the International European Movement
2001	President of the University Council for Jean Monnet Action
2005	Honorary president of the International European Movement

Merits

Schuman Medal, awarded by the EPP in the EP (1995) ; Cross of the Agricultural Merit, Great Cross of Isabel the Catholic, Great Cross of Civil merit (Spain), Great Cross Francisco Morazán, awarded by the Centre-American Parliament (1997) ; Great Cross of the order to the Merit of Chile ; Great Cross of the Order of Libertador San Martín, of Argentina ; Medal of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ; Named adoptive child of the city of Salamanca (Spain) ;Great Cross of the Order of Antonio José Irizarri (Guatemala) - 1999; Legion of Honour (France) - 2000; Gold Medal of the EP - 2000

Academic Distinctions

"Doctoris Honoris Causa" of the State Institute of International Relations of Moscow (1998); Honorary Member of the Catholic University of Chile (1998) ; "Doctoris Honoris Causa" of the University of Sofia (Bulgaria, 1999)

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The Hon. Don Boudria, Canada, Member of the Board
The Hon. Jack Buechner, USA, Member of the Board
The Hon. Helene Chalifour Scherrer, Canada, Member of the Board Jan-Willem Bertens, Europe, Member of the Board
José Maria Gil Robles, Europe, Member of the Board
Karin Junker, Europe, Member of the Board
The Hon. Jack Murta, Canada, Member of the Board
The Hon. John J. Rhodes, III, United States, Member of the Board
The Hon. Joseph Tydings, United States, Member of the Board

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