Manuel Escudero Zamora (born 1946) is a Spanish economist and politician.

Biography

Escudero was born on 29 March 1946 in

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. He graduated in business sciences at the Universidad de Deusto and obtained a PhD at the

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. Between 1987 and 1991, he worked as co-ordinator of the "Programa 2000" of the

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(PSOE). He was professor of macroeconomics at the

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in Madrid between 1991 and 2005 as well as the director of the Global Compact Research Center at the Levin Institute. Linked within the PSOE to

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, in 2003 he became a member of the

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representing

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, covering the vacant seat left by José Quintana Viar. Escudero, who later took a step back from the political activity, returned to the PSOE and was appointed secretary responsible for the area of economic policy and employment of the PSOE. Following the accession of

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to the post of prime minister in June 2018, Escudero was appointed chief ambassador of the Spanish delegation to the

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(OECD), replacing

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Escudero, Manuel Living people Members of the 7th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Spanish economists Ambassadors of Spain to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 1946 births University of Deusto alumni