José Luis Martínez Almeida, spokesperson of the PP (People’s Party/Partido Popular) and PP candidate for Mayor of Madrid, will participate in a new edition of the PROA Communicación Observatories entitled ‘Recovering Madrid for everyone’. The Observatory will be held on Friday, May 8, 2019, at 09:00AM at the Wellington Hotel (c/Velázquez, 8).
José Luis was born in Madrid in 1975. He holds a Law Degree from the Comillas Pontificial University (ICAI-ICADE) and has been a State Attorney since 2001. He has worked in Girona, Toledo and Madrid. His career as a lawyer of the State is extensive, particularly before the Social Courts and in the Administrative Chamber.
In 2007 he was inaugurated as General Director of Historic Heritage of the Community of Madrid until 2011. Between 2011 and 2013 he was Secretary-General of the Governing Council of the Autonomous Community of Madrid later becoming Secretary-General of the Board of Directors of SEPI Desarrollo Empresarial (SEPIDES), a group of companies owned by the government holding company SEPI, from September 2013 to April 2014, also assuming leadership of its Legal Advising Department.
In April 2014, he was appointed by consensus of the Council of Ministers as Director of the Institutional Legal Division of the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility.
After the 2015 Municipal and Autonomous Elections he took office as Councilor of PP’s Municipal Group and on April 28, 2017 he was elected as Spokesperson of the Municipal branch of his party, a position he currently holds. On January 13, 2019, he was nominated by his party as the Candidate for Mayor of Madrid. His hobbies include golf and an avid passion for Atlético de Madrid.
