The Most Excellent Cristóbal Montoro
Minister of Finance and Civil Service
In office 4 November 2016 – 1 June 2018
Monarch	Felipe VI
Prime Minister	Mariano Rajoy
Preceded by	Himself (Finance and Public Administrations)
Succeeded by	María Jesús Montero (Finance) Meritxell Batet (Civil Service)
Minister of Finance and Public Administrations
In office 22 December 2011 – 4 November 2016
Monarchs	Juan Carlos I Felipe VI
Prime Minister	Mariano Rajoy
Preceded by	Elena Salgado (Economy and Finance) Manuel Chaves (Territorial Policy and Public Administration)
Succeeded by	Himself (Finance and Civil Service) Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría (Presidency and for Territorial Administrations)
Minister of Finance
In office 28 April 2000 – 18 April 2004
Monarch	Juan Carlos I
Prime Minister	José María Aznar
Preceded by	Rodrigo Rato (Economy and Finance)
Succeeded by	Pedro Solbes (Economy and Finance)
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 13 January 2016 – 21 May 2019
Constituency	Madrid
In office 13 December 2011 – 13 January 2016
Constituency	Seville
In office 1 April 2008 – 13 December 2011
Constituency	Madrid
In office 28 March 2000 – 2 July 2004
Constituency	Jaen
In office 21 June 1993 – 28 May 1996
Constituency	Madrid
Personal details
Born	(1950-07-28) 28 July 1950 (age 73) Cambil, Spain
Political party	People's Party
Alma mater	Autonomous University of Madrid

Cristóbal Ricardo Montoro Romero (born 28 July 1950 in Cambil) is a Spanish politician. Hs is a member of the Spanish People's Party. He served as Minister of Finance and Public Administrations of Spain from 22 December 2011 until 1 June 2018, when a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy ousted his government.^[1] His ministry was re-structured in 2016 and the responsibilities of Public Administration were given to the vice president. The office was renamed Minister of Finance and Civil Service.

He was a Member of the European Parliament for the People's Party, part of the European People's Party, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. He has represented Madrid in the Spanish Congress since 1993.

He was a substitute for the Committee on Budgets, a member of the Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean Community and a substitute for the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

He was appointed Minister of Finance by José María Aznar in April 2000, but he had to abandon the post in April 2004 when his party lost the elections.

Education

• 1973: Graduate in Economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM),^[2] he obtained the Extraordinary Prize of Degree
• 1981: Doctor in economics (UAM)

Career

• 1982-1988: Assistant lecturer in public finance (UAM, 1973–1982) and Deputy professor
• since 1989: Professor of public finance at the University of Cantabria
• Economist and director of studies^[2]
• 1996-2000: Member of the Boards of Directors of Telefónica, Iberia, Endesa and SEPI
• since 1999: Member of the National Executive Committee of the PP
• 1993-1996, 2000-2004, 2008-present: Member of the Congress of Deputies.^[2]
• 1996-2000: Secretary of State for the Economy
• 1996-2000: Spain's representative to various economic and financial organisations
• 2000-2004: Minister of the Treasury^[2]
• 2011-2016: Minister of the Treasury and Public Administrations
• 2016–2018: Minister of the Treasury and Civil Service

Decorations

• Knight Grand Cross of the Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles III^[3]
• Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic^[4]

See also

• Ministry of Economy and Finance of Spain
• Spanish Government

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cristóbal Montoro.

• Personal profile of Cristóbal Montoro in the European Parliament's database of members
• Declaration (PDF) of financial interests (in Spanish)
• Biography at Spanish Congress site