Daniel Filmus | |
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| Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation | |
| In office 20 September 2021 – 10 December 2023 | |
| President | Alberto Fernández |
| Preceded by | Roberto Salvarezza |
| Succeeded by | Office abolished |
| Secretary of Malvinas Affairs | |
| In office 27 December 2019 – 20 September 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Mateo Estreme(as Undersecretary) |
| Succeeded by | Guillermo Carmona |
| In office 6 January 2014 – 10 December 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Javier Esteban Figueroa(as General Director) |
| Succeeded by | María Teresa Kralikas(as Undersecretary) |
| National Senator | |
| In office 10 December 2007 – 10 December 2013 | |
| Constituency | City of Buenos Aires |
| Minister of Education, Science and Technology | |
| In office 25 May 2003 – 10 December 2007 | |
| President | Néstor Kirchner |
| Preceded by | Graciela Giannettasio |
| Succeeded by | Juan Carlos Tedesco |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1955-06-03)June 3, 1955 (age 70) Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Political party | Justicialist Party |
| Other political affiliations | Front for Victory(2003–2017) Citizen's Unity(2017–2019) Frente de Todos(2019–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires |
| Profession | Sociologist |
| Website | www.danielfilmus.com.ar |
Daniel Fernando Filmus (Spanish pronunciation:[daˈnjelfeɾˈnandoˈfilmus]; born June 3, 1955) is anArgentinepolitician and academic, who served as the country'sMinister of Science, Technology and Innovation, from 2021 to 2023.
Filmus formerly served as aNational Senator for theCity of Buenos Aires from 2007 to 2013, and asMinister of Education, Science and Technology in the government ofPresidentNéstor Kirchner. From 2014 to 2015, and later from 2019 to 2021, he was Secretary of Affairs pertaining to theMalvinas (Falkland Islands).[1][2]
Born inLa Paternal,Buenos Aires, to María Cecilia Cwik and Salomón Filmus,[3] his mother was anEnglish language teacher ofPolish descent, and his father aJewish immigrant fromBessarabia (nowMoldova) who arrived in Argentina in 1928 and became a shopkeeper.[4] Daniel Filmus was briefly involved in theCommunist youth wing as a teenager, and enrolled at theUniversity of Buenos Aires (UBA). He became involved inPeronist politics as astudent union activist, and helped establish an office of thePermanent Assembly for Human Rights at UBA. He studiedpsychology andsociology at the university, and earned a degree in the latter in 1977.[3] Filmus became asecondary school teacher, working inEntre Ríos andChaco Provinces.[5] He earned a specialization inadult education at CREFAL, a literacy promotion program inMexico, and a master's degree in education at theFluminense Federal University inRio de Janeiro in 1989.[6] Filmus never married. He had a daughter in 1992 during his first long-term relationship, and another daughter in 2002 with his second partner, Marisa Factorovich, a psychoanalyst.[4][3]
Filmus became a professor of sociology at UBA in 1985 and served as president of the UBA Sociology Alumni Association, writing several books on the subject. He served in the Citizen Power Council of Buenos Aires and as staff researcher in theLatin American School of Social Studies (FLACSO), whose Argentine chapter he headed between 1992 and 2000.[7]
Filmus was appointed secretary of education of the City of Buenos Aires by MayorAníbal Ibarra, who asked him to become his running mate for his successful 2003 bid for reelection.[8] Newly inaugurated presidentNéstor Kirchner appointed Filmus Minister of Education before the mayoral race began, however.[5] Filmus also served as staff researcher at theNational Research Council from 1997, and as president of theUNESCO Debt-for-Education task force from 2006.[6]
Filmus ran formayor of Buenos Aires on theKirchneristFront for Victory ticket in2007. He came in second in the first round, and was defeated byRepublican Proposal candidateMauricio Macri by nearly 22% in therunoff.[9] He was, however, electedSenator for Buenos Aires and took office in December 2007; he was named president of the Committee on theEnvironment andSustainable Development.[6]
He again ran as the Front for Victory candidatemayor of Buenos Aires in2011, naming his rival in the primaries, Labor MinisterCarlos Tomada, as hisrunning mate.[10] The results were largely a replay of the 2007 election, however, with a second place showing in the first round and Macri's eventual reelection in the runoff by a margin of over 28%.[11]
In 2021, he was appointed asMinister of Science, Technology and Innovation in replacement ofRoberto Salvarezza, as part of a cabinet reshuffle following the government's poor showings in the2021 legislative primary elections.[12]
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