Pilar del Castillo
| Pilar del Castillo | |
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| Minister of Education, Culture and Sport | |
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In office 27 April 2000 – 18 April 2004 |
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| Prime Minister | José María Aznar |
| Preceded by | Mariano Rajoy |
| Succeeded by | María Jesús San Segundo |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
31 July 1952 Nador, Morocco |
| Political party | People's Party |
| Alma mater |
Technical University of Madrid Ohio State University Complutense University of Madrid |
Pilar del Castillo Vera (Nador, Morocco, 31 July 1952). Minister for Education, Culture and Sport in the Spanish Government, 2000 to 2004.
Law graduate at Complutense University of Madrid, 1974. In 1980 she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship for a master's degree in Political Science at Ohio State University, USA. PhD in Law from Complutense University of Madrid, 1983. Awarded the Spanish Sociological Research Centre Prize for the doctoral thesis 'Political Party Funding in Western Democracies', 1984.
In 1986, Del Castillo became Assistant Professor in Constitutional Law at UNED, and Professor in Political Science and Administration in 1994. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal 'Nueva Revista de Política, Cultura y Arte', 1995-1996. Director of the Spanish Sociological Research Centre, 1996 to 2000. She is author of numerous publications on political parties and electoral behaviour.
When Prime Minister José Maria Aznar led his conservative Popular Party to a victory and second term of office at the 2000 national elections, he made Del Castillo his new Minister of Education, Culture and Sport. In this capacity, she was in charge of implementing the government’s 2001 plan to overhaul the country’s public universities; the law prompted the largest student demonstrations since Spain's transition to democracy, with an estimated 100,000 students, university staff protesting nationwide on 1 December 2001.
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