José Javier POMÉS RUIZ is a Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats. Member of the EP Committee on Budgetary Control, the Committee on Development and the Delegation for relations with the countries of Southeast Asia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). He is a substitute for the Committee on Budgets, the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection, the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee and the Delegation to the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly.

Curriculum vitae

- Graduate in law, University of Navarre

- Master's degree in economics and business administration, IESE Business School, Barcelona. Seventeen years' experience in the private financial and business sector

- Former Secretary of UPN, member of the Parliament of Navarre, held the portfolio for economics and finance in the Government of Navarre

- 1993-1994 and since 1996: Member of the European Parliament