Born 1960 ; graduated in law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1983) ; Judge (1985) ; from 1992 judge specialising in contentious administrative proceedings, assigned to the High Court of Justice of the Canary Islands at Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1992 and 1993), and to the National High Court (Madrid, May 1998 to August 2007), where he decided judicial proceedings in the field of tax (VAT), actions brought against general legislative provisions of the Ministry of the Economy and against its decisions on State aid or the government’s financial liability, and actions brought against all agreements of the central economic regulators in the spheres of banking, the stock market, energy, insurance and competition ; Legal Adviser at the Constitutional Court (1993-98) ; Judge at the Court of First Instance since 17 September 2007.