Rosa Quintana Carballo (born 1959) is a Spanish civil servant and politician who has been the Galician government's Minister of the Sea since 2015, serving in the equivalent predecessor posts since 2009."Consellería do Mar: Biografía da conselleira"
''Xunta de Gallicia'' (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 November 2017.

Career

Rosa Quintana Carballo was born in 1959. She graduated from the

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with a degree in biological sciences and subsequently completed a doctorate in biology. In 1987, she joined the Galician Ministry of Fisheries, Shellfish and Aquaculture and two years later she was promoted to be head of fishing inspection. In 1992, she was appointed head of the Shellfish Service and from 1997 was Territorial Delegate in

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for the Ministry. In 2001, she was appointed the Ministry's Director-General of Innovation and Fishing Development. In 2009, she became Minister for the Sea in the Galician government, a post which was reorganised in 2012 as Minister of Rural and Marine Affairs. In 2015, it was reorganised once again and she was appointed Minister for the Sea. She was elected to the

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in the

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References

1959 births Living people 21st-century Spanish women politicians Government ministers of Galicia (Spain) Academic staff of the University of Santiago de Compostela Members of the 8th Parliament of Galicia Members of the 9th Parliament of Galicia Women members of the Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 15th Congress of Deputies (Spain) {{Galicia-politician-stub