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Javier Solana
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Spanish politician
Javier Solana is a Spanish politician who held significant roles in European politics and international affairs. He matters because he served as a key figure in shaping European foreign policy and diplomatic efforts, particularly during important moments in recent European history.
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Vinony's link graph records 587 inbound references to Javier Solana, and connects out to tincture, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Juan Carlos I of Spain.
Vinony files it under 1942 births, 20th-century Spanish diplomats and 20th-century Spanish physicists.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 10
- Total plays
- 10
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,760x
- Blast2GO: a universal tool for annotation, visualization and analysis in functional genomics research
· 2005 · cited 10,121x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,640x
- The SIESTA method for<i>ab initio</i>order-<i>N</i>materials simulation
· 2002 · cited 9,051x
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Concepts, taxonomies, opportunities and challenges toward responsible AI
· 2020 · cited 8,548x
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Key facts
- Preceded by
- Jürgen Trumpf
- Succeeded by
- Cathy Ashton (Foreign Affairs and Security Policy)
- Prime minister
- Felipe González
- Born
- Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga , ( 1942-07-14 ) 14 July 1942 (age 83) , Madrid , Spain
- Party
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
- Spouse
- María de la Concepción Giménez Díaz-Oyuelos
- Education
- Complutense University , University of Virginia
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Munich Security Conference 2015 by Olaf Kosinsky-218.jpg
- Number of children
- 2
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- Javier Solana
- date of birth
- 1942-07-14
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- social media followers
- 115008
- affiliation string
- ESADE
- P10632
- Javier Solana
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Encyclopedic overview
Francisco Javier Solana de Madariaga KCMG CYC ( Spanish: [fɾanˈθisko xaˈβjeɾ soˈlana ðe maðaˈɾjaɣa]; born 14 July 1942) is a Spanish physicist and PSOE politician. After serving in the Spanish government as Foreign Affairs Minister under Felipe González (1992–1995) and as the secretary general of NATO (1995–1999), leading the alliance during Operation Allied Force, he was appointed the European Union's High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Secretary General of the Council of the European Union and Secretary-General of the Western European Union and held these posts from October 1999 until December 2009.
Background and career as a physicist
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