Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma, Countess of Murillo and Bornos, Grandee of Spain, DBE is a Spanish politician and former President of Madrid. She was President of Madrids Peoples Party and the first female politician to have held the office of President of the Senate and Minister of Education and Culture in Spanish democratic history.
Aguirre was born in Madrid into a family of high Spanish nobility, being the eldest daughter of Jos Luis Aguirre Borrell, a lawyer, and Piedad Gil de Biedma y Vega de Seoane, daughter of Jos Gil de Biedma, 3rd Count of Seplveda. She is a niece of the late Catalan poet, Jaime Gil de Biedma. She studied in the La Asuncin School and in the British Council School of Madrid and earned a degree in Law in Complutense University in 1974. She is fluent in English and French.
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