Elena
Salgado, Spain's Health Minister, is 55 years old and was born in Ourense. She
has two degrees, one in Industrial Engineering which she obtained at the University
Polytechnic of Madrid, and the second in Economics obtained at the Complutense
University of Madrid.
Ms Salgado has sat on the board of directors of several
public and private companies, including Hispasat, Telefónica, Retevisión,
Correos y Telégrafos (Spanish Post Office) and Caja Postal.
Elena
Salgado has worked in three different ministries during her career (the Ministry
of Health is her fourth). She directed the Department of Studies in the Institute
of Small and Medium-sized Businesses in the Ministry of Industry in the early
1980s. She was appointed General Director of Personel Costs and State Pensions
in 1985 in the Ministry of Economics and Finance. And in 1991 she was appointed
Secretary of State for Communications in the Ministry of Public Works, Transport
and Environment and served in this post during the last term of Felipe Gonzalez's
government.
In her free time the Spanish Health Minister enjoys going to
the cinema. She is a firm believer in the power of Internet and new technologies,
and once said she believed that "every village in Spain should have access
to Internet". Elena Salgado is a non-smoker
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