Jose Maria Aznar was born in Madrid in 1953. He earned a degree in law at the Complutense University and has held the qualification of Inspector of State Finances since 1975. First elected as a member of parliament in 1982, he became a leader of the newly founded Partido Popular in 1989, and was elected prime minister of Spain as the leader of that party in 1996 and again in 2000. Currently he is the president of the Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis and a distinguished scholar at Georgetown University, as well as chairman of the Partido Popular and of the Christian Democrat and People's Parties International. Under his leadership, Spain enjoyed its first two income tax reductions since becoming a democracy, a 3.4 percent average annual increase in GDP, and was a member of the "Coalition of the Willing" in the Iraq War. Mr. Aznar has written several books, including La Espana en que yo creo (The Spain I Believe In) and Ocho Anos de Gobierno (Eight Years of Government). Married to Ana Botella, he has three children and one grandson.
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