Professional trajectory related to the intervention in the Congress:

– Director of Caritas Bizkaia (1989-98).
– Promoter and director of Aspaldiko Foundation (1998-2016).
– President of Lares Euskadi (2005-2017), Basque Association of Non-profit Residential Homes.

Currently:

-Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Fundación Aspaldiko (2021….
-President of the Council for the Elderly of Bizkaia (2020-present).

Degree in Mathematics from the EHU-UPV.
He began his professional career in the world of Computer Science, in the fields of banking, university and public administration, as project manager and consultant.
Subsequently he has developed his career in the world of statistics, mainly in the area of methodology. In this area he has led innovation and R&D projects in mathematical statistical methods applied to official statistics in the Basque Institute of Statistics, Eustat.
She is currently responsible for the statistics of the Department of Equality, Justice and Social Policies and develops her activity in the fields of poverty, social needs, social services, aging, immigration and equality.

Education:
– Degree in Veterinary Medicine.
– Diploma in Basque Studies.
– Master’s Degree in Teacher Training in Secondary Education and Baccalaureate.

Languages: Basque (high); Spanish (high); French (high).

Professional and political career:
– Director General of the Basque Women’s Institute, EMAKUNDE (2022-present).
– Regional Director of the Body for the Equality of Women and Men. Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (2015-2019 / 2019-2022)
– Coordinator-Technician at the Arantzazu Parketxe -AizkorriAratz Natural Park. Naturgintza Foundation (2009-2015).
– Technician. Abelur Cooperative (2004-2009).
– Teacher at the Shepherds’ School (1997-2004).
– Technician. Lurgintza Coop. (1989-2004).

Positions and representations in other bodies or entities:
– Member of the Jury of the EMAKUNDE Prize for Equality.
– Substitute on the Board of Directors of the Basque Women’s Institute EMAKUNDE.
– Substitute on the Inter-institutional Commission for Equality between Women and Men.
– Member of the Board of Trustees of the Kirolgi Foundation.
-Member of Antzuola Town Council (2019-).

Training
– Master in Educational Guidance and Intervention, ALBOR-COHS Group (September-1990 to June-1992).
ALBOR-COHS (September-1990 to June-1992)
– Degree in Philosophy and Educational Sciences (Pedagogy section), University of Deusto (September-1984 to June-1989).

Professional career
– Director of Social Services (Basque Government) (2019-current)
– Provincial Deputy for Social Services (Provincial Council of Alava) (2016-2019)
– Director of Social Services (Provincial Council of Alava) (2016)
– Member of the Social Action, Culture, Sport, Equality and Cooperation Committees (Provincial Council of Alava) (2003-2016)
– Pedagogue of the technical team of Occupational Centres and Residences of the Area of People with Disabilities of the Foral Institute of Social Welfare (IFBS), as interim staff (1989-2016).
– Councillor of Amurrio Town Council (Amurrio Town Council) (2003-2011)

Studies
Degree in Law.

Languages
Basque: fluent.
Spanish: high.
French: high.

Professional and political career
– 2003- June 2023: Spokesperson of the EAJ-PNV municipal group in the
Errenteria Town Council.
– 2000-2015: practising lawyer.
– 2002-2005: consumer arbitrator in the consumer mediation service of the Basque Government.
of the Basque Government.
– 2007-2011: member of the General Assembly of Gipuzkoa and spokesperson in the Social Policy Commission.
the Social Policy Committee.
– 2007-2011: President of the Board of Trustees of the Sagrado Corazón municipal residence in Errenteria.
Heart of Errenteria.
– 2007-2011: President of Errenteria Social Services.
– 2012-2019: Member of the Regional Executive of the GBB.
– 2015-2023: Member of Parliament for Social Policies.

Positions and representations in other bodies or entities
– Member of the Basque Council for Social and Health Care.
– Member of the Jury of the EMAKUNDE Award for Equality, 2018 edition.
2018.
– Member of the Basque Volunteering Council.
– Member of the Inter-institutional Body for Social Services.
– Member of the Basque Social Services Council.
– Head of the Inter-institutional Commission for Social Inclusion of the Basque Government.
Basque Government.
– Member of the Provincial Committee of the Red Cross.
– Member of the Basque Council for the Promotion of Accessibility.
– President of the Autonomous Regional Body Kabia.
– Member of the Board of Directors of Katea Legaia SLL.
– Vice-President of the Consortium for Compensatory Education and Occupational Training of Gipuzkoa.
Occupational Training Consortium of Gipuzkoa.
– Member of the Board of Directors of Talleres Protegidos Gureak,
S.A.
– President of the Governing Body of the Autonomous Foral Organisation
Uliazpi Foundation.
– Member of the Plenary of the Forum for the Integration and Social Participation of Immigrant Citizens.
Immigrant Citizens of the Basque Country.
– Member of the Monitoring Commission of the 2nd Inter-institutional Agreement for the
for the care of women victims of domestic abuse and sexual violence.
and sexual violence.
– Head of the Basque Family Council.
– Member of the Basque Council for Social Inclusion.
– Member of the Basque Health Council.
– Member representing the Provincial Council of the Basque Country on the Inter-institutional
inter-institutional coordination committee on addictions.
– Member of the Basque Council on Addictions.
– Representative of the Provincial Council on the steering committee for the
minors and alcohol programme.
– Member of the Council for the Integral Promotion and Social Participation of the
Roma in the Basque Country.
– President of the Adinberri Foundation.

D. in Philosophy from the University of the Basque Country (extraordinary prize), he is a visiting professor at several universities and collaborates with the Globernance Institute for Democratic Governance.

His areas of work are public ethics, bioethics, human rights and the philosophy of disruptive technologies. [Member of the OECD Expert Group on Research ethics and new forms of data for social and economic research.] Editor and author of several works on these topics, he was the founder of the electronic journal of applied ethics DILEMATA [www.dilemata.net].

He is currently a member of the research teams of EmpoderDAT: Empoderamiento del paciente, espacio de datos de salud e inteligencia artificial como pilares del nuevo sistema sanitario [Fundación Séneca]; Detección y eliminación de sesgos en algoritmos de salud [Fundación BBVA]; and BAKARZAIN: Soledad no deseada y cuidados [BBK Kuna].

President of the CSIC Ethics Committee and member of the AIHUB-CSIC steering committee, he also collaborates in the ESPACyOS Network (Health Ethics for Action, Care and Social Observation) and in the Expert Committee on Ageing of the Fundación General CSIC.

Martin Zuñiga Ruiz de Loizaga holds a degree in Social Work, a Master’s Degree in Research, Consultancy and Social Innovation and a PhD with international mention in the PhD programme in Human Rights from the University of Deusto.

He has several publications of impact in scientific journals, collaborations in collective works, and communications in national and international congresses. He has experience in various competitive research projects and has been a visiting researcher in the MUARG (Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group) team at the University of Manchester. He also collaborates and participates in different national and international research platforms and projects. He has worked as a researcher in the SSI Group developing innovation projects in the field of Social Services, care and longevity, and as an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU).

He currently works as a lecturer and researcher in Social Work at the University of Deusto.

Academic background
– PhD in Human Rights from the University of Deusto.
– Master’s degree in Bioethics from the Complutense University of Madrid.
– Master’s Degree in Ethics for Social Construction from the University of Deusto.
– Degree in Psychology with health accreditation.
– Degree in Theology from the University of Deusto.

Professional experience
She began her professional activity working as an educator with minors and young people in the Agintzari Educational Association, of which she was a founding member.
She later worked at the Aita Menni Hospital in Mondragón with mentally ill people, where she began her training in Bioethics and where she was responsible for the Menni Bioethics Centre.
Since 1996 she has been teaching healthcare ethics in different institutions, organisations and administrations in Spain, mainly in the Basque Country, and in the implementation of different ethics committees in which she has participated: Aita Menni Hospital, Áraba Mental Health, Bizkaia Social Intervention Ethics Committee, Cruces University Hospital Ethics Committee and Plena Inclusión Ethics Committee.
During the years 2017-2021 she has been responsible for the technical coordination of the Basque Strategy for the prevention and detection of Elder Abuse.
She has been a clinical psychologist since 1991 with Spanish and European accreditation as a general health psychologist.
She is currently a researcher and lecturer at the University of Deusto where she teaches Ethics and Health Psychology and is Doctor in charge of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Deusto.
Researcher in the “Social Intervention: quality of life and social inclusion” team at the UD and in the “Bioethics, Well-being and Health” inter-university team with the Ramon Llul University and the University of Comillas.
She is a collaborating lecturer at the University of the Basque Country, University of Vic, University of A Coruña, University of Cantabria, Catholic University of Chile and Javeriana of Bogotá.
As an independent consultant and supervisor, she collaborates with various public and private entities in projects to improve the quality of care in social and socio-health services, contributing to the development of ethics and the protection of the rights of citizens who are users of different community or institutional services.

Other merits and participations
– Former chairwoman and member of the Bizkaia Social Intervention Ethics Committee.
– Member of the Social Health Commission of Ethics Committees of the Basque Country.
– Member of the Plena Inclusión Ethics Committee
– Member of the UD Research Ethics Committee
– Member of the “Agenda Nagusi” group of experts of the Vice-Ministry of Social Policies of the
Social Policies of the Basque Government
– Member of the Scientific Commission of the Fundamental and Clinical Bioethics Association and former member of its Board of Directors.

Education: Degree in Law.

Languages: Basque (high); Spanish (high); English (low); French (high).

Professional and political career:
– Director General of Planning, Investments and Economic Benefits. Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (2015-2023)
– Head of Planning Section. Gipuzkoako Foru Aldundia (2012-2015).
– Senior Planning and Systems Technician. Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (2012).
– Head of Sports Service. Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (1996-2012).
– Senior technician in Sports Facilities. Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (1990-1996).
– Medium-level sports technician. Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (1988-1990).
– Auxiliary sports technician. Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa (1987-1988).

Positions and representations in other bodies or entities:
– Substitute on the Basque Volunteer Council.
– Substitute on the Inter-institutional Body for Social Services.
– Substitute on the Basque Social Services Council.
– Member of the Governing Board of the Kabia Autonomous Foral Body.
– Member of the Governing Board of the Regional Autonomous Body Uliazpi Foundation.

• Deputy director of the Area for the Elderly of the Álava Provincial Institute of Social Welfare.
• Specialist Geriatric Nurse and Graduate in Social and Cultural Anthropology.
• Expert in Ethics applied to Social Intervention.
• President of the Ethics Committee for Social Intervention in Alava (CEISA).
• Member of the Social and Health Commission of Ethics Committees of the Basque Country.
• Member of the Euthanasia Guarantee and Evaluation Commission of the Basque Country.