Guillermo Martínez Casañ

Who is Guillermo Martínez Casañ?

Guillermo Martínez Casañ is a Spanish politician and former Member of the European Parliament who belongs to the People's Party.

Martínez is qualified in law, he began his professional career working as a counsel lawyer in the UK and France before entering politics in 1986 becoming a Principal Administrator in the European Parliament. He was active in Observer during the Turkish referendum at the end of the military regime, the end of Sandinism in Nicaragua and the end of Apartheid in South Africa. He was in charge of the Temporary Committee for the Unification of Germany. He became vice-president of the Spanish delegation to the European assembly. In 1993 he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia region which he represented until 2004. Afterwards, he joined the Cabinet of Ms Loyola de Palacio. In January 2005 he re-joined his post as an Official in the European Parliament.

Since 2005, Martínez-Casan has been the director of the European Ideas Network a centre-right Think Tank sponsored by the European People's Party Group. Besides, since 2009 Mr Martínez-Casan is one of the two co-secretary's generals, with Walid Phares of the Trans-Atlantic Group on Counter Jihad Terrorism with offices in Brussels and Washington DC.