Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero

Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero MEP
Member of the European Parliament
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2014
Constituency	Spain
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 13 December 2011 – 1 July 2014
Constituency	Valencia
In office 9 March 2008 – 19 April 2009
Constituency	Valencia
Secretary of Economic Policies and Employment of PSOE
In office 5 February 2012 – 27 July 2014
Preceded by	Octavio Granado
Succeeded by	Manuel Vázquez (Economy) Maria Luz Fernández (Employment)
Secretary-General of Infrastructure
In office 18 April 2009 – 14 October 2011
Prime Minister	José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Preceded by	José Damián Santiago
Succeeded by	José Damián Santiago
Personal details
Born	Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero Fernández (1958-01-07) 7 January 1958 (age 66) Madrid, Spain
Political party	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Other political affiliations	Socialist Party of the Valencian Country-PSOE Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
Alma mater	University of Minnesota University of Valencia Grenoble Alpes University
Occupation	Economist, politician

Inmaculada Rodríguez-Piñero Fernández (pronounced [immakuˈlaða roˈðɾiɣeθ piˈɲeɾo]; born 7 January 1958, in Madrid) is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). Married with two children, she earned a master's degree in economic theory from the University of Minnesota and served as economic and employment spokesperson for the PSOE.^[1]

In 2008, Rodríguez-Piñero was selected as second placed candidate^[2] on the PSOE list for Valencia province and was consequently elected to the Spanish national parliament.

On 16 April 2009 Rodríguez-Piñero was named State Secretary for Infrastructure and Planning by the Minister of Public Works José Blanco López in the government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. She subsequently resigned her parliamentary seat.^[3] In her capacity as State Secretary, she served as ex-officio member of the board of the Sociedad Estatal de Infraestructuras del Transporte Terrestre (SEIIT).

Rodríguez-Piñero has been a Member of the European Parliament since the 2014 European elections. She has since been serving on the Committee on International Trade. Since 2019, she has been part of the Democracy Support and Election Coordination Group (DEG), which oversees the Parliament's election observation missions.^[4]

In addition to her committee assignments, Rodríguez-Piñero is part of the parliament's delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee. She is also a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Long-Term Investment and Reindustrialization,^[5] the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability^[6] and the Spinelli Group.^[7]

• Biography at Spanish Congress site