Trinidad Jiménez

Trinidad Jiménez García- Herrera [ tɾiniðað ximeneθ ] ( born June 4, 1962 in Málaga) is a Spanish PSOE politician. She was from April 2009 to October 2010 Minister for Health and Social Affairs in the Cabinet Zapatero. Previously, she was Secretary of State for Ibero-America in the Foreign Ministry. From 2010 to December 2011 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.

Jiménez studied law in Madrid. 1984 occurred in which the Spanish Socialist Workers Party ( PSOE). 1990 to 1992 she worked in Equatorial Guinea, including at the Law Faculty of the University of Bata. While she was responsible for the PSOE secretary of international relations for America, she also worked until 1997 as a consultant for Felipe González.

In 2001, she was Vice -President of the Party of European Socialists. She ran in 2003 for the Office of the Mayor of Madrid. On 13 September 2006 she was appointed Secretary of State for Ibero-America in the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs; on 7 April 2009 announced Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero in a cabinet reshuffle on her appointment to the Ministry of Health and Welfare. In a new cabinet reshuffle on 20 October 2010 she became the successor Miguel Ángel Moratinos ' in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.