Biografías

  • Elma Saiz Delgado

    Elma Saiz Delgado

    Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration

    Born in Pamplona in 1975.

    Married and mother of two children.

    Degree in Law and University Master’s Degree in Tax Consultancy from the University of Navarra.

    He speaks French and has a medium level of English.

    She began her professional career in February 1999 as a social director of IMEL, Tax Legal Consultancy, S.L, a company specializing in tax consultancy and legal advice to companies and individuals.

    In the academic field, she was a collaborator in the University Master’s Degree in Business Law and in the University Master’s Degree in Tax Consultancy of the University of Navarra as well as in the School of Legal Practice and in the Law degree in the same university center. He also participated as a professor in the Master in Tax, Labor and Accounting Advice at the Public University of Navarra and has given various certificates of professionalism.

    In her political career, she is the Executive Secretary of Fiscal and Financial Policy of the Regional Executive Commission of the PSN-PSOE and a member of the Federal Committee of the PSOE.

    Member of the Parliament elected by the PSN-PSOE (2003-2007).

    Delegate of the Government of Spain in Navarre (2008- 2012).

    Director of the Navarre Institute for Equality and Family of the Government of Navarre (2012).

    Minister of Economy and Finance and Spokeswoman Government of Navarre (2019-2023).

  • Borja Suárez Corujo

    Secretary of State for Social Security and Pensions

    Since June 2018 he has been General Director of Social Security Management, first in the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Migration, and then in the current Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.

    Born in 1973, he holds a PhD in Law and a degree in Law and Political Sciences from the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he has developed his teaching and research activity as Full Professor of Labour Law and Social Security.

    He is the author of more than a hundred publications on labor and social security, with particular attention to the public pension system and the distribution of competences between the State and the Autonomous Communities in matters of social protection, as main lines of research. In this sense, the monographs "The public pension system: crisis, reform and sustainability", "The right to the revaluation of pensions", "The reform of pension systems in Europe", and "Social protection in the State of the Autonomies" stand out.

    He is a member of the European Institute of Social Security and has been a visiting professor at the University of Louvain (KU Leuven).

  • Pilar Cancela Rodríguez

    Pilar Cancela Rodríguez

    Secretary of State for Migration

    Born in Stuttgart (Germany)

    She holds a degree in Law from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He has a Superior Degree in Occupational Risk Prevention. Mediator/Arbitrator in extrajudicial settlement of labor disputes.

    He speaks Galician and has a medium level of English.

    Official of the Superior Body of the General Administration of the Xunta de Galicia (1993). General Secretary of the Galician Council of Labor Relations (2002-2003) General Director of Labor Relations of the Xunta de Galicia (2005-2009) Deputy. Congress of Deputies (2015-2021) President of the Congressional Equality Commission (2016-2021) President of the Commission on the State Pact on Gender Violence. Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation (2021-2023) President of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development (2021-2023) President Advisory Group of the UN Secretary-General for the Localization of the SDGs of Agenda 2020

    In her political career she is a member of the Federal Executive of the PSOE as Secretary of the Area of Migration Policy and Foreign Policy and PSOE Exterior since 2017. Patron of the Pablo Iglesias Foundation (2018-2022) Secretary Organization of the PSdeG-PSOE (2013-2016) Managing President PSdeG-PSOE (2016-2017)

    He has participated as a speaker in many conferences, seminars and conferences related to the achievement of gender equality and the fight against gender violence in different areas of society and public life, as well as on international cooperation for development and migration.

  • Elena Rodríguez Navarro

    Secretary General for Inclusion

    Secretary General of Inclusion, after being advisor of inclusion policies for the last four years, first, in the General Secretariat of Inclusion and, later, in the Cabinet of the minister.

    She is a sociologist of training and has dedicated her professional career to the promotion of social policies, from the public and private spheres. She served as Presidential Adviser during the 8th and 9th Legislatures, where she worked as Cabinet Director and the Department of Institutional Affairs as Head of Strategic Communication and Advice on Public Policies on Social Welfare and Equality.

    She has also been director of the Third Sector Platform, an organization that brings together more than 28,000 social action entities and works for the promotion of the rights of people, mainly those who are in a situation of vulnerability.

    The closeness and knowledge of the Third Sector have been fundamental to know objectively the social reality and situations of poverty and exclusion experienced in our country. This is an essential area to implement a policy such as Minimum Vital Income and the development of inclusion policies linked to the provision.

    Elena Rodríguez is a sociologist at the Complutense University of Madrid and has had research experiences applied to social sciences in international universities such as Stanford University or the Institute of Education of the University of London.

  • Blanca Breñosa Saez de Ibarra

    Undersecretary for Inclusion, Social Security and Migration