Jonás Fernández (Oviedo, Spain, 1979) is a Member of the European Parliament since 2014. He is a full member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, where he iscoordinator for the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), and rapporteur for the Basel III implementation legislative package. In addition, he is a member of the Subcommittee on Taxation, and a substitute member of the Committee on Budgets.MEP Fernández holds an Executive MBA from IESE Business School (2010-12), an M.A. in Economics and Finance from CEMFI-Bank of Spain (2002-04) and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Oviedo (1997-2001). He has completed his training with a program of Advanced Econometrics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2006) and the Senior Executives in National and International Security at Harvard University (2016).Professionally, MEP Fernández joined the consultancy firm Solchaga Recio & Asociados in 2005 as an analyst in economics and international politics. Three years later, he was promoted to the company´s board and later on, appointed as Chief Economist. While working for this consultancy, MEP Fernández taught Economics at Carlos III University (2007-10), and carried out various entrepreneurial activities.