The Government appoints Elena Manzanera, director of the Andalusian Institute of Statistics, as the new president of the INE

MADRID, 1 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Government has appointed the new president of the National Institute of Statistics (INE) to the until now director of the Institute of Statistics and Cartography (IECA) of Andalusia, Elena Manzanera, replacing Juan Rodríguez Poo.

At the proposal of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, the Council of Ministers approved this Monday the appointment of Elena Manzanera, who has a very technical profile due to her career at the head of the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia, an agency dependent on the Ministry of Economy, Treasury and European Funds of the Junta de Andalucía.

Manzanera will replace Juan Manuel Rodríguez Poo in the Presidency of Statistics, after at the end of June he presented his resignation from the position he had held since 2018 "for personal reasons".

Manzanera has been director of the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia since 2019. She has a degree in Economics and Business Sciences from the University of Seville, she has developed her entire career in the field of public statistics since she joined the Andalusian Institute of Statistics in 1990, where she has performed different functions.

She has been head of the Tourism Planning and Analysis Service in the General Directorate of Tourism Planning (1997-2001) and head of the Studies Service of the General Directorate of Andalusian Studies (2001-2004).

From 2004 to 2019, she held the position of Deputy Director of the Coordination, Communication and Methods Area of ​​the Institute of Statistics and Cartography of Andalusia, as reported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.