Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas

Head office of the institute inMadrid
Formation	January 3, 1963; 62 years ago (1963-01-03)
Type	Governmental organization
Purpose	Publicresearch institute
Headquarters	Montalbán, 8Madrid
Coordinates	40°25′04″N3°41′25″W / 40.4179°N 3.6903°W /40.4179; -3.6903
Region served	Nation-wide
Affiliations	Ministerio de la Presidencia
Budget	€12.7 million, 2023[1]
Website	cis.es
Formerly called	Instituto de la Opinión Pública

TheCentro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (Centre for Sociological Research), orCIS, is a Spanish publicresearch institute. It was founded in 1963 as theInstituto de la Opinión Pública,^[2] and after the1977 Spanish general election acquired its present name.^[3]: 728 The institute publishes theRevista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas and various series of books.^[3]: 728

• Luis González Seara (July 1963 – October 1967)
• Salustiano del Campo [es] (October 1967 – January 1971)
• Ramón Cercós Bolaños (January 1971 – 1972)
• Alejandro Muñóz-Alonso Ledo (1972 – July 1973)
• Rafael Ansón Orliart (July 1973 – February 1974)
• Francisco Murillo Ferrol (February 1974 – October 1974)
• Pablo Sela Hoffmann (January 1975 – March 1976)
• Luis López-Ballesteros y Cervino (April 1976 – October 1976)
• Juan Díez Nicolás (October 1976 – April 1979)
• Rafael López Pintor (April 1979 – January 1983)
• Julián Santamaría Ossorio (January 1983 – March 1987)
• Rosa Conde (March 1987 – July 1988)
• Luis Rodríguez Zúñiga (September 1988 –4 May 1991)
• Joaquín Arango Vila-Belda (July 1991 – May 1996)
• Pilar del Castillo Vera (May 1996 — April 2000)
• Ricardo Montoro (May 2000 – May 2004)
• Fernando Vallespín [es] (May 2004 – May 2008)
• Belén Barreiro [es] (May 2008 – September 2010)
• Ramón Ramos Torre [es] (September 2010 – January 2012)
• Félix Requena Santos (January 2012 – December 2016)
• Cristóbal Torres Albero (December 2016 – June 2018)
• José Félix Tezanos (since June 2018)

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