Everything about Daniel Filmus totally explained
Daniel Fernando Filmus (born
June 3 1955 in
Buenos Aires) is an
Argentine politician and academic, currently
Senator for
Buenos Aires and formerly Minister of Education, Science and Technology in the government of
President Néstor Kirchner.
Filmus was briefly involved in the
Communist youth wing as a teenager. He studied
psychology and
sociology at the
University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and became involved in
peronist politics. He helped to set up a permanent assembly on human rights at UBA, as a
student union activist. He gained a masters in Education at the
Universidade Federal Fluminense in
Rio de Janeiro.
Filmus headed the
Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and became an academic in the field of education, writing several books. He entered public service as deputy minister of education to
Carlos Grosso (he was involved in the "escuela shopping" affair, when that government sold school land in order to make a shopping mall) and in the mid 1990s assisted the minister
Susana Decibe. In 2000, he became minister of education of the city of Buenos Aires under
Aníbal Ibarra, who asked him to be his running mate in the 2003 elections . However before the election took place, President Kirchner asked Filmus to become Minister of Education. He is also Professor of Sociology at UBA. Filmus was a candidate for mayor of
Buenos Aires in 2007, and came in second place after the
ballotage on
24 June 2007 behind
Mauricio Macri .
Later in 2007, Filmus was elected Senator for Buenos Aires and took office in December 2007.
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