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Elena Salgado (Elena Salgado Méndez) was born on 12 May, 1949 in Ourense, Spain, is a Spanish politician (born 1949). Discover Elena Salgado's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Elena Salgado Méndez
Occupation Politician
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 12 May 1949
Birthday 12 May
Birthplace Ourense, Spain
Nationality Spain

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1949

Elena Salgado Méndez (born 12 May 1949 in Ourense) is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain and held several ministerial portfolios during her political career.

Salgado is a graduate of industrial engineering.

She has a master's degree in business administration.

Early in her career, Salgado held high-level positions at the finance and industry ministries; Josep Borrell was considered to be a mentor to her.

1996

From 1996 until 1997, she briefly served as manager of the Teatro Real in Madrid.

2004

From 2004 until 2007, Salgado served as Minister for Health and Consumer Affairs.

In this capacity, she tried to implement the so-called wine law, a project to prevent alcohol consumption among minors; she confronted Burger King and urged the company to withdraw advertising for XXL hamburgers; and she advocated for genetic selection of embryos for therapeutic purposes.

Most notably, she became known as the architect of legislation that banned smoking in public places.

2006

In 2006, she was Spain's candidate for the post of Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Following a selection process with 11 candidates, she emerged as the only non-medical professional among the five finalists who also included Kazem Behbehani, Shigeru Omi, Margaret Chan and Julio Frenk; the position eventually went to Chan.

2007

As Minister for Public Administrations from 2007 until 2009, Salgado played a key role in overseeing the roll-out of a stimulus package of €8 billion ($10.7 billion) for infrastructure projects by city governments.

2008

Despite her Galician origin Salgado later served as a deputy for Cantabria province since the 2008 general election.

2009

From 2009 until 2011, Salgado served as minister of Economy and Finance and as first and second vice president of Spain, in the Socialist Party government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.

Amid a cabinet reshuffle, she succeeded Pedro Solbes as Minister of Finance in April 2009 in what was considered a surprise move by Zapatero and thereby became the first woman to hold this position.

At the time, she was one of the few to have been in all of Zapatero's governments, alongside María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, Elena Espinosa and Miguel Ángel Moratinos.

2010

When Spain held the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2010, Salgado chaired the meetings of its Economic and Financial Affairs Council.

During her time as chair, EU finance ministers agreed on a deal that provided $560 billion in new loans and $76 billion under an existing lending program to countries facing instability amid the European debt crisis.

Also in 2010, she helped launch the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), then a $875 million fund to help poor farmers, alongside several of her counterparts – Tim Geithner, Jim Flaherty and Yoon Jeung-hyun –, World Bank president Robert Zoellick and Bill Gates.

2011

She held the office until the fall of the Zapatero Administration in the 2011 general election.

On 12 July 2011, Salgado became Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, equivalent to the position of First Deputy Prime Minister, a position that Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba decided to leave to prepare his candidacy for the 2011 general election.

In this capacity, Salgado led the central government's efforts in 2011 to force new budget controls on Spain's powerful autonomous communities – that control one-third of spending in the country – to ensure it meets its ambitious budget-deficit targets, including by establishing penalties for the regions that fail to meet their budget targets.

She also temporarily reinstated a wealth tax on people with net assets of more than €700,000 ($962,780) in 2011 and 2012, a measure designed to help close what was one of Europe's largest budget gaps at the time while easing widespread voter discontent with spending cuts.

2016

Since 2016, Salgado has been serving as president of the Asociación Española de Empresas de Consultoría (AEC), a lobby group.

Salgado has a daughter.