Fernando Fernández Martín

Education

• 1965: Graduate in medicine and surgery
• 1966: diploma in Neurology
• 1967: Paris
• 1968: specialist in clinical neurophysiology and neurology
• 1975: doctor of medicine

  Career

• 1965-1968: Assistant lecturer in neurology
• 1969-1979: Senior lecturer in medical pathology
• 1984: Deputy professor in neurology
• 1971-1999: Head of the Neurology Department at the University Hospital of the Canary Islands
• 1994-1999: Member of the PP Regional Executive Committee and of the PP National Executive Committee
• 1983-1994: Member of the Canary Islands Regional Parliament
• 1983-1989: Regional President of the Social Democratic Centre party in the Canary Islands
• 1991-1994: Chairman of the PP parliamentary group
• 1987-1990: President of the Autonomous Government of the Canary Islands
• since 1994: Member of the European Parliament
• 1999-2001: Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Development
• 1994-2004: Member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
• 2001-2004: Vice-Chairman of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South America and Mercosur
• 2004: Chairman of the ad hoc delegations for Venezuela and for Bolivia
• Member of election observation missions for various electoral processes in Africa and Latin America

  Decorations

• Chain of the Order of the Canary Islands
• Medal of the Spanish Senate and other national and foreign decorations